The Market Mind Hypothesis: Understanding Markets and Minds Through Cognitive Economics

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English | ISBN: 3111211614 | 2023 | 493 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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What is economics' missing link? Recent economic crises have had a devastating impact on society. Worryingly, they gravely risked a collapse of the financial system. These crises also painfully revealed economics' blind spots. Crucially, economics is not an innocent bystander but central to the problem.

In this pioneering book, Patrick Schotanus explains that economics' mechanical worldview is the ontological error which leads to flawed thinking and faulty practices. The Market Mind Hypothesis (MMH) thus calls it "mechanical economics": it not only erroneously views but also dangerously treats the economy as a machine, the market as an automaton, and its agents as robots. Inspired by heterodox economic and leading cognitive thinkers, this book offers an alternative paradigm. Central to MMH's psychophysical worldview is the fact that consumers, investors, and other participants are conscious beings and that their minds' extension makes consciousness a reality in markets, exemplified by market mood. Specifically, denial of the complex mind~matter exchanges as the essence of markets means the extended mind~body problem is economics' elephant in the room.

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