Cognition and Extended Rational Choice
Published on 31. October 2007
256 pages
978-1-135-99052-7 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice to allow for both motivation beyond self-interest and intuitions that cannot be reduced to the logic of a situation. This new book by Howard Margolis demonstrates how an account of widely-di
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"Twenty-five years ago I strongly recommended Margolis's Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality. Now, five books later, it is exciting to see how much farther he's taken that theory, supported it with an extensive review of laboratory experiments, and applied it to groups, large and small, resolving numerous puzzles along the way." - Thomas C. Schelling , 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in EconomicsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional
Illustrations
11 s/w Tabellen, 29 s/w Zeichnungen, 29 s/w Abbildungen
29 b/w images, 11 tables and 29 line drawings
File size
1,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-99052-7 (9781135990527)
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Cognition and Extended Rational Choice
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Person
Howard Margolis is a Professor in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the College. He has taught at the University of California-Irvine, and has held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Margolis' major research interest is in social theory, particularly the underpinnings of individual choice and judgment, which shape aggregate social outcomes. The principal results of this work have been five books: Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1982, University of Chicago Press, 1984); Patterns, Thinking and Cognition (University of Chicago Press, 1987), Paradigms and Barriers (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and It Started with Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution (McGraw-Hill 2002).
Margolis' major research interest is in social theory, particularly the underpinnings of individual choice and judgment, which shape aggregate social outcomes. The principal results of this work have been five books: Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1982, University of Chicago Press, 1984); Patterns, Thinking and Cognition (University of Chicago Press, 1987), Paradigms and Barriers (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and It Started with Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution (McGraw-Hill 2002).
Content
Introduction. 1. The NSNX Model. 2. Dual-utilities. 3. Norms. 4. The Schelling Diagram. 5. Using the Schelling Diagram. 6. Adverse Defaults. 7. The NSNX Cascade. 8. Public Goods Experiments. 9. Reciprocity Puzzles. 10. Social Illusions. 11. What We See in the World that Looks Like What We See in this Theory: The Case of Terrorism. Appendix: The Data Template.
