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June 14, 2012behavioral economics, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended mind, externalism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy

Hayek and Behavioral Economics

The publisher has now put up a webpage for this volume. Austrian SchoolCognitionDeirdre McCloskeyEconomicsEpistemologyFriedrich HayekHerbert GintisHerbert SimonPeter Boettke

January 30, 2012adam smith, austrian economics, behavioral economics, Deirdre McCloskey, empathy, sympathy

The New Theories of Moral Sentiments

Here is an article in the WSJ on Deirdre McCloskey. I had the honour and pleasure to meet Deirdre some 18 months ago at a conference on behavioral economics in San Diego. She was absolutely delightful. Everything you wanted to know about Deirdre but were afraid to ask . . . can be found here. Austrian…

November 23, 2011Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, bounded rationality, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, Daniel Kahneman, experiencing self, happiness, hayek, Herbert Simon, memory, neurophilosophy, personal identity, rationality, reflective self, remembering self, self, self-deception, self-referentiality, thinking fast and slow, well-being

Daniel Kahneman on Cognitive Traps

Daniel Kahneman’s recently released book Thinking, Fast and Slow aimed at a popular audience is certainly generating a great deal of press, so far as I can tell, most of it very positive. Here he is outlining his experimental work in a Ted Talk. As a behavioral economist much of what he says about rationality will have…

September 13, 2011behavioral economics, hayek, herb gintis, Herbert Simon, the bounds of rationality, vernon smith

Gintis on Hayek

Check out this recent paper by Herb Gintis entitled Hayek’s “Contribution to a Reconstruction of Economic Theory.” Herb’s paper is, I think, going to be part of an edited collection that I’m also contributing to and am still polishing up. I had the pleasure of meeting Herb just over a year ago at the Society for…