Economics, cognitive science and social cognition
β Scribed by Don Ross
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1389-0417
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β¦ Synopsis
I discuss the role of economics in the study of social cognition. A currently popular view is that microeconomics should collapse into psychology partly because cognitive science has shown that valuation is constitutively social, whereas non-psychological economics insists that it is not. In the paper I resist this view, partly by reference to the relevant history of economic theory, and partly by reference to an alternative model of the way in which that theory complements, without reducing to, psychological accounts of social cognition.
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