Can cognitive science create a cognitive economics?

• Cognitive science intersects with economics in at least three ways.
• First, by providing richer models of individual behaviour.
• Second, using economic theory to model distributed cognition.
• Third, jointly to create ‘rational’ models of cognition and social interaction.
• We may be able to from behavioural to cognitive economics.

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.