Cognitive
Economics
This page is maintained by Marco Novarese
mail me: marco@novarese.org
last update June, 2010
This page aims at providing a guide to the resources on cognitive economics available
on the web.
The site aims to be permanently under
construction. Please help me in expanding its contents!
At this stage the attention will be
focuse on articles and notes freely available on the web.
Contents
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Cognitive economics is a new stream of research, part
of the wider "heterodox economics" that has still to be defined. This section proposes a series of papers, by different authors,
defining cognitive economics, its aims and the relation with other approaches
and disciplines As different authors are considered, obviously, different and even
partly contradictory ideas could emerge |
Nep Cognitive and Behavioural Economics A free list of new paper focuse on Cognitive and behavioural economics
under Repec and Nep project |
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People, laboratories and other stuff
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contents:
Foundations
and Hystorical Evolution
Cognitive
Economics and Experimental Economics
Routines and organizational learning
Cognitive
Economics and Simulations
Cognitive
Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Institutional Economics and ...
Social culture and individual behaviour
- Economics and Cognitive Science,
by Douglass C. North, working paper, 1996 (pdf
file)
- On learning and adaptation in
Economics, by Brian Arthur, PDF from Santa Fe Institute Working
Paper Series, 1992
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"The intermingling between Cognitive Economics
and Experimental Economics: A Few Remarks on History, Methodology and Applications"
by Marco Novarese and Salvatore Rizzello, working paper 2004,
Foundations
and Hystorical Evolution
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"Cognitive Economics: Foundations and
Historical Evolution" by M. Egidi and S. Rizzello, 2004
Cognitive
Economics and Experimental Economics
Even
if it is strictly related to the most know experiments of Kahnemann and Tversy,
the Cognitive experimental approach has also some peculiarity in methodology ,
aims and in the focus of attention.
- Cognitive Science Rationality and
the experimental study of reasoning, by Guy Politzer,
proceeding of the French School Economie Cognitive, Cnrs, 2001 (doc file)
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Toward a Cognitive Experimental
Economics by Marco Novarese, preliminary version of the article
publised in the book Cognitive Paradigms in Economics (S. Rizzello ed),
Routledge, London, 2003
- Paradoxes versus formalism.
Evidence from the early years of game theory and experimental economics, Quaderni
del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università di Siena, n. 433, luglio
2004. Alessandro Innocenti
Routines
and socio organizational learning (empirical and theoretical studies)
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Organizational Routines: a Sceptical
Look, by Nicolai j. Foss and Teppo Felin, forthcoming (in
a revised version) in Markus Becker, ed. Handbook of Organizational Routines,
Elgar, (pdf file)
- Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and
Institutions, by Arthur T. Denzau & Douglass C. North (pdf
file)
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The emergence of path-dependent
behaviors in cooperative contexts, by Massimo Egidi
and Alessandro Narduzzo, CEEL working paper, 1996 (html file)
Cognitive
Economics and Simulations
- From Agent-Based Computational
Economics towards Cognitive Economics, by Denis Phan
(pdf file)
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Mind No-Mind Dilemma in Agents for
Social Science Simulations, by Pietro Terna,
2000 (pdf file)
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How to build and use agent-based
models in social science, by Nigel Gilbert
and Pietro Terna, 2000 (pdf file)
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Simulations, theory and experiments.
Notes from an historical perspective, by Marco
Novarese, 2004 (pdf file)
Cognitive
Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Institutional Economics and ...
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Interconnecting Evolutionary,
Institutional and Cognitive Economics: Six Steps towards Understanding the Six
Links, by Pavel Pelikan (html page with the abstract and
the link to the full PDF article)
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Evolutionary Cognitive Economics (link
to Paquet list of publications, this is paper number 109), by Gilles Paquet
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see also the quoted papers of Denzau-North, North and Egidi-Rizzello
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Herding: An Interdisciplinary
Integrative Review From A Socionomic Perspective by
Wayne Parker and Robert R. Prechter (on some links with cognitive see these notes from Wayne Parker)
Social culture and individual behaviour
Real world experience (culture) influences how people behave in experimental contexts:
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In Search of Homo Economicus: Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies,
by Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Herbert Gintis,
Richard McElreath, Ernst Fehr
Studies
and models on individual learning
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Theories of Learning in Games and
Heterogeneity Bias, by Nat Wilcox, 2006 (pdf file)
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Learning in different social
contests, by Marco Novarese, Centre for Cognitive Economics,
working paper, 2004, (pdf file)
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Individual learning: theory formation,
and feedback in a complex task, by Marco
Novarese and Alessandro Lanteri, Centre for Cognitive Economics, working paper,
2007, (pdf file)
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Learning in Economics: Where Do We
Stand?, by Tilman Slembeck, Discussion Paper of the
University of St. Gallen (PDF file), 1999
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see also the quoted paper by Brian Arthur
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Striking a blow for sanity in theories
of rationality, by Gerd Gigerenzer (Pdf File), 2004
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see the quoted Herding: An Interdisciplinary
Integrative Review From A Socionomic Perspective by
Wayne Parker and Robert R. Prechter
- Equilibrium fictions : a cognitive approach to societal rigidity, by Karla Hoo and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010), (link to the download page)
Understanding Economics can make it harder to understand economy
-Heterodox Economics and Dissemination of Research through the Internet: the Experience of RePEc and NEP, by Marco Novarese and Cristian Zimmerman (PDF file), 2008