You are cordially invited to attend the public defence of a thesis to obtain the title of
DOCTOR IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES by Bertin Martens
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 at 16.00h in block E room 0.06
VUB campus Brussels, Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels
Title of the doctoral thesis:
The cognitive mechanics of economic development and institutional change
I would strongly recommend to all ECCO members to attend this
PhD defense, and in particular to our new members who have just
started to work on a PhD themselves, so that they get an idea of what
a doctorate is really about.
This will be the first doctoral degree in our group devoted
specifically to core ECCO themes: the mechanisms underlying the
evolution of increasingly complex organizations (in this case
socio-economic systems), and the specific role of (distributed)
cognition therein. While the thesis is written by an economist for a
comittee in the economics faculty, Bertin's approach is intrinsically
interdisciplinary, combining insights from economics, cognitive
science, game theory, computer simulations, cultural evolution and
sociology. While the thesis does use some specialized economics
terminology, I expect that Bertin, as in his previous lectures on the
subject, will explain them in a mostly non-technical way,
understandable to an interdisciplinary audience.
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Francis Heylighen
Center "Leo Apostel"
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
Center "Leo Apostel"
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
