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Title

Cognition, rationality, and institutions / [edited by] Manfred E. Streit, Uwe Mummert, Daniel Kiwit.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Kiwit, Daniel, 1966-
• Mummert, Uwe, 1962-
• Streit, Manfred E.

Description

viii, 268 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cognitive psychology > Congresses
• Human information processing > Congresses
• Institutional economics > Psychological aspects > Congresses
• Reason > Congresses

Note

• "Most of the contributions of this volume are revised versions of papers that have been presented at a symposium organized by the Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems in Jena (Germany)." -- Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cognition, Rationality and Institutions -- Introduction and Overview / Daniel Kiwit, Uwe Mummert and Manfred E. Streit -- Suboptimality and Social Institutions: The Relationship Between Cognition and Context / Jack Knight -- Comment / Piet de Vries -- Comment / Daniel Kiwit -- Patterned Variation. The Role of Psychological Dispositions in Social and Institutional Evolution / Ekkehart Schlicht -- Comment / Brian Loasby -- Comment / Uwe Mummert -- Legal Design and the Evolution of Remorse / Steffen Huck -- Comment / Thomas Brenner -- Rent Leaving / Bruno S. Frey and Iris Bohnet -- Comment / Heiko Geue -- Comment / Andreas Ortmann -- Reasoning in Economics and Psychology: Why Social Context Matters / Andreas Ortmann and Gerd Gigerenzer.

ISBN

3540674462 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00044678^

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