ABSTRACT
Part I has highlighted the main difficulty with mainstream economics. At no
moment does the individual agent adopt a reflexive distance with respect to the game rules in which he is interacting with other model-using agents.
Their relationship to the game situations and to the learning they undergo
in these situations is non-reflexive. After my discussion of Parts II and III,
such non-reflexive modeling can no longer be upheld. Critically rational
agents have the capacity of stepping back critically not only from the
resource distribution and from the mechanisms that generated it, but also
and most importantly from the assumptions made by economists to repre-
sent the agents’ rationality and their interactions. In fact, my conception of a cognitively empowering economics entails a metaphorical dialog between
the theorist and the agents she is modeling.
