Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics

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What we do

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.

For further information regarding our research, please see www.cognitiveeconomics.com

People

Leadership

Richard Holden profile
Director, Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW Business School
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Robert Akerlof
Deputy Director, Professor of Economics, UNSW Business School
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Research Principal

Hongyi Full
Senior Lecturer, UNSW Business School
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Administrator

Advisory Board

Kate Howitt
Independent Director
Brian Schmidt
2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Melanie Silva
Managing Director, Google Australia & NZ
Richard Thaler
2017 Nobel Laureate in Economics

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