deals with cognition and to graduate students in economics eager to discover how economics evolves. It aims at extending the … framework of game theory in order to better fit with the results of rapidly increasing laboratory experiments concerned with …

cognition and performativity, which I put into the context of Searle's philosophical account of institutions. Substantive … neuronal theory of metaphors, resulting in a precise definition of rule-following as performative action. I present two …

This paper investigates two different approaches to the analysis of institutions using game theory and discusses their … methodological and theoretical implications for further research. Starting from von Neumann and Morgenstern's theory, we investigate … method to investigate institutions as the unplanned outcome of self- interested individual behavior? While the game theory …