Economics, cognitive science and social cognition

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)125-135
Number of pages11
JournalCognitive Systems Research
Volume9
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Aggregation
  • Atomism
  • Behavioral economics
  • Economic theory
  • Sociality

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