Foundations of the Social Sciences,' `Cooperation and Rationality,' `Rationality and Economics,' `Bayesian Theory and Rationality …This volume collects outstanding contributions to the theory of games, the theory of game-theoretical rationality, and … Nobel Prize in economics and especially in game theory to John F. Nash, John C. Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten. Two of them …

Standard economics theory is built on the assumption that human beings act rationally in their own self interest. But … if rationality is such a reliable factor, why do economic models so often fail to predict market behavior accurately …

pt. 1. Diversity, rights, norms and intentions -- pt. 2. Social choice, judgment aggregation and rationality of legal …

Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called “bounded rationality …Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data—especially novel …

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three … is a theory in which these aspects are central. The direct interaction between individuals, firms and banks does not … coordination rather than efficiency is the central problem in economics. How do the myriads of individual choices and decisions …

This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original … essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases …. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not …