Howard Margolis

Cognition and Extended Rational Choice

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One of the exciting innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics'. This book demonstrates how an account of widely-discussed topics, from tipping points in social choice to cognitive illusions and experimental anomalies, can be brought within a coherent framework.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-415-70197-6
EAN: 9780415701976
Produktnummer: 2756823
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 499 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 499

Über den Autor

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 & Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1982, University of Chicago Press, 1984); Patterns, Thinking & 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).