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Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Arthur Lupia
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Edited by Mathew D. McCubbins
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Edited by Samuel L. Popkin
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| Series | Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:344 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521653329
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| Classifications | Dewey:320.019 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
13 Tables, unspecified; 25 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
9 October 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions about how people see and process information and provide new explanations of how basic human needs, the environment, and past experiences combine to affect human choices.
Reviews"...a remarkable book, both for its instructional value and the insight it offers into one of the most important problems in the social sciences." American Political Science Review
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