title: Can cognitive science create a cognitive economics?
abstract: Cognitive science can intersect with economics in at least three productive ways: by providing richer models of individual behaviour for use in economic analysis; by drawing from economic theory in order to model distributed cognition; and jointly to create more powerful 'rational' models of cognitive processes and social interaction. There is the prospect of moving from behavioural economics to a genuinely cognitive economics.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Group, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. Electronic address: nick.chater@wbs.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chater
mesh_terms: D019336:Cognitive Science; D004467:Economics; D006801:Humans
keywords: Cognition; Distributed cognition; Economics; Rational analysis; Virtual bargaining