Evolving Norms Cognitive Perspectives in Economics /

• Main Author: Teraji, Shinji (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics
• Subjects: Evolutionary economics.; Behavioral economics.; Culture - Economic aspects.; Economics.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Cultural Economics.

This book presents institutional evolution and individual choice as codependent results of behavioral patterns. Drawing on F.A. Hayek's concepts of cognition and cultural evolution, Teraji demonstrates how the relationship between the sensory and social orders can allow economists to track soci...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Foundations
• 2 Why Do People Obey Norms?
• 3 The Sensory Order Revisited
• 4 Norms, Coordination, and Order
• 5 Culture and Cultural Evolution
• 6 Co-evolution of Mind and Society.- 7 Epilogue.