Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality

Book Overview

Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, eighteen scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521653320
• ISBN13: 9780521653329
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"