Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions
Published on 3. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 268 pages
978-3-642-64124-4 (ISBN)
Description
Institutions are rules that are supported by various enforcement mechanisms. Cognition refers to the process of how men perceive and process information, whereas rationality refers to how these processes are modelled. Within institutional economics there is a growing scepticism towards extending the conventional economic frame of analysis to institutions. In particular, the notion of perfect rationality is increasingly questioned. At the same time human cognition has become a major field of research in psychology. This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
9 farbige Abbildungen
VIII, 268 p. 9 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-64124-4 (9783642641244)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-59783-1
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Additional editions
Manfred E. Streit | Uwe Mummert | Daniel Kiwit
Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions
E-Book
12/2012
Springer
€53.49
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Manfred E. Streit | Uwe Mummert | Daniel Kiwit
Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions
Book
07/2000
Springer
€85.55
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Content
Cognition, Rationality and Institutions - Introduction and Overview.- I: Institutions and Cognition.- Suboptimality and Social Institutions: The Relationship Between Cognition and Context.- Comment.- Patterned Variation. The Role of Psychological Dispositions in Social and Institutional Evolution.- Comment.- Legal Design and the Evolution of Remorse.- Comment.- II: Cognition and Rationality.- Rent Leaving.- Comment.- Reasoning in Economics and Psychology: Why Social Context Matters.- Comment.- Decision Making and Institutionalized Cognition.- Comment.- III: Rationality and Institutions.- Rationally Transparent Social Interactions.- Comment.- Verstehen, Ideal Types and Situational Analysis for Institutional Economics.- Comment.- Learning and its Rationality in a Context of Fundamental Uncertainty.- Comment.- List of Authors.