Two Minds Intuition and Analysis in the History of Economic Thought /

• Main Author: Frantz, Roger (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Economics.; Management science.; Economic history.; Economic theory.; Cognitive psychology.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economics, general.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Cognitive Psychology.

As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not a hard science, at least it is the "queen of the social sciences." It is, therefore, intuitively obvious, that intuition and economics are as if oil...

Table of Contents:

• To Intuition
• Adam Smith. New Intuitions For A New Age
• John Stuart Mill. An Anti-Intuitionist Social Reformer
• Alfred Marshall. Metaphysician and Economist
• Intuition and Analysis in the Economics of the John Maynard Keynes
• Frank Knight. Intuition, Risk and Uncertainty
• Swimming Against the Stream. Herbert Simon, Harvey Leibenstein, George Shackle, Friedrich von Hayek
• Intuition in Current Economic Literature.