Cognition and Extended Rational Choice - Softcover

Margolis, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415701988 ISBN 13: 9780415701983

Verlag: Routledge, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

This new book by Howard Margolis 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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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 and Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1982, University of Chicago Press, 1984); Patterns, Thinking and 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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415701988
• ISBN 13: 9780415701983
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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