Cognitive economics is about getting inside people’s heads.
Our mission is to rebuild economics by understanding the limits of human computational capacity and the individual reasoning process.
selected research
Recent Research
Areas of Research
Cognition
Attention
Meet the Team
Richard Holden
Director
Robert Akerlof
Deputy Director
Hongyi Li
Research Principal
Jason Lu
Alumni
Isaac Backer
Research Assistant
Ms Alice McNeil
Administrator
DJ Thornton
Research Associate
Henri Forman
Research Assistant
Matias Danziger
Research Assistant
Evasio MacMillan
Predoctoral Fellow
Meet the Advisory Board
Professor Richard Thaler
2017 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ms Melanie Silva
Managing Director, Google Australia & NZ
Professor Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University
Professor Brian Schmidt
2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Ms Kate Howitt
Independent Director
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