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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Don Ross |
| ISBN: | 0262182467 9780262182461 |
| OCLC Number: | 265731953 |
| Notes: | Literaturverz. S. [413] - 431 |
| Description: | X, 444 S. |
| Responsibility: | Don Ross |
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"Economists and cognitive scientists have been on a random walk towards one another for two decades now. But it took Don Ross's book to reveal the straight line that joins these two disciplines and make out of them a social science with all the mathematical beauty of general equilibrium theory and the empirical content of a behavioral science. I doubt that either an economist or a psychologist could have found the path to this stable equilibrium around which to organize both disciplines. It required someone well versed in both the history of economics and decision theory, a combination that only Ross provides. The result is the most important new work in the philosophy of economics in years!" --Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University "The current state-of-the-art in a number of subdisciplines of cognitive science and economics makes questions of integration and cross-border relations more urgent and difficult than usual. Ross's ambitious, wide-ranging, richly detailed, up-to-date, and carefully argued approach to unifying and organizing the behavioral sciences is therefore especially timely. It is a major contribution to our understanding of those sciences, and an important advance in the philosophy of science as well." --David Spurrett, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa "Economists who are uneasy about the foundations of their subject should read this book. It offers philosophical reassurance and constructive criticism." --Ken Binmore, Professor of Economics, University College London Read more...
