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Book SynopsisBringing together economists from various traditions such as Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics, law and economics, neuro-economics and bio-economics, this title examines the impact of cognitive science growth on the economics discipline.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to a Cognitive Methodology in Economics (Elisabeth Krecke and Carine Krecke) Chapter 2. Does The Sensory Order Have a Useful Economic Future? (William N. Butos and Roger G. Koppl) Chapter 3. Science and Market as Adaptive Classifying Systems (Thomas J. McQuade) Chapter 4. Hayeks Theory of Knowledge and Behavioural Finance (Alfons Cortes and Salvatore Rizzello) Chapter 5. Instinct and Habit Before Reason: Comparing the Views of John Dewey, Friedrich Hayek and Thorstein Veblen (Geoffrey M. Hodgson) Chapter 6. Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm (Bart Nooteboom) Chapter 7. Austrian Theory of Entrepreneurship Meets the Social Science and Bioeconomics of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group (Janet T. Landa) Chapter 8. The Anti-Foundational Dilemma: Normative Implications for the Economic Analysis of Law (Elisabeth Krecke and Carine Krecke) Chapter 9. Alfred Marshall Meets Law and Economics: Rationality, Norms and Theories as Tendency Statements (Steven G. Medema) Chapter 10. Cognitive Theory as the Ground of Political Theory in Plato, Popper, Dewey and Hayek (Richard A. Posner) Note on Behavioral Economics (Nick Schandler)