IV Winter Workshop (2003)

Psychological Foundations of Choice Theory in Economics

A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, supported by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Research.
Madrid, November 20-22(2003)

Coordinator: Jesús Zamora Bonilla (UC3M)

Guest-coordinator: Juan Carrillo (USC)

As a result of recent research on the cognitive mechanisms at work in decision-making processes, a more realistic approach has recently come to supplement the "naïve" assumptions concerning individual rationality typical of neoclassical economics. A number of models and techniques in economics are being reconsidered in the light of these results, boosting a debate on the foundations of the social sciences involving -among others- experimental economists, game theoreticians, evolutionary psychologists and philosophers of the social sciences. This workshop intends to summarise the state of the art through a number of presentations by outstanding international scholars, who will also extend the discussion on the consequences of their research for our views of economics and the social sciences. Young researchers are especially encouraged to take part in it.

Speakers: Peter Ayton (City University, London), Félix Ovejero (Universidad de Barcelona), Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante), Chris Starmer (U. Nottingham), Ralf Hertwig (U. Basel), Juan Carrillo (USC), J. Francisco Álvarez (UNED), Y. Hanoch (Max Planck).

 

 

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