Cognition and rationality
Petracca, E. (2025). Evolution at a tipping point. A review essay on ‘Evolution Evolving’, by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott F. Gilbert, Biological Theory. DOI:10.1007/s13752-025-00501-y
Petracca, E., & Grayot, J. (2025). Mindshaping and the embodiment of rationality. In The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping, T. W. Zawidzki and R. Tison (Eds.) Routledge, ch. 16, pp. 212–224
Petracca, E. (2024). A double-edged metaphor: Simon and the scissors of bounded rationality. In Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon, G. Gigerenzer, S. Mousavi, and R. Viale (Eds.), Edward Elgar, ch. 7, pp. 131–147
Petracca, E. & Gallagher, S. (2024). Trust and reliance in the cognitive institutions of cryptocurrency . Mind & Society. Online first [open access]
Petracca, E. (2023). Social phenomena as a challenge to the scaling-up problem. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Online first.
Petracca, E. & Grayot, J. (2023). How can embodied cognition naturalize bounded rationality?. Synthese, 202, 4, article 115, pp. 1-28.
Gallagher, S. & Petracca, E. (2024). Trust as the glue of cognitive institutions. Philosophical Psychology. 37, 1, 216-239 [open access]
Petracca, E. (2022). The utility of goods or actions? A neurophilosophical assessment of a recent neuroeconomic controversy. Economics & Philosophy, 39, 3, 351-372.
Petracca, E. (2022). Two styles of social neuroeconomics. Review essay on ‘Social Neuroeconomics: Mechanistic Integration of the Neurosciences and the Social Sciences’ by Jens Harbecke and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 12, 1, 95-113 [open access]
Petracca, E. (2022). Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism. History of the Human Sciences, 35, 2, 101-125.
Petracca, E. (2021). Embodying bounded rationality: From embodied bounded rationality to embodied rationality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 3389 [open access]
Petracca, E. (2021). On the origins and consequences of Simon's modular approach to bounded rationality in economics. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28, 5, 708-732.
Mastrogiorgio, A. Petracca, E. & Palumbo, R., (2021). Extended cognition and the innovation process. In New Frontiers in Evolutionary Innovation: Novelty Creation in an Unpredictable Economy, Cattani, G. & Mastrogiorgio M. (Eds.), pp. 144-168, New York: Oxford University Press.
Gallese, V., Mastrogiorgio, A., Petracca, E. & Viale, R. (2021). Embodied bounded rationality. In Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality, Viale R. (Ed.), pp. 377-390, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Petracca, E. (2020). Neuroeconomics beyond the brain: Some externalist notions of choice. Journal of Economic Methodology. 27, 4, 275-291.
Petracca, E. & Gallagher, S. (2020). Economic cognitive institutions. Journal of Institutional Economics. 16, 6, 747-765. [open access]
Petracca, E. (2020). Two and a half systems: The sensory-motor system in dual-process judgment and decision-making. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 13, 1, 1-18.
Gallagher, S., Mastrogiorgio, A. & Petracca, E. (2019). Economic reasoning and interaction in socially extended market institutions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1856. [open access]
Mastrogiorgio, A. & Petracca, E. (2018). Satisficing as an alternative to optimality and suboptimality in perceptual decision-making. A commentary on Rahnev & Denison. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e235.
Petracca, E. (2017). A cognition paradigm clash: Simon, situated cognition and the interpretation of bounded rationality. Journal of Economic Methodology, 24, 1, 20–40.
Mastrogiorgio, A. & Petracca, E. (2016). Embodying rationality. In Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical, Epistemological and Cognitive Issues, L. Magnani and C. Casadio (Eds.), Springer, pp. 219–37.
Mastrogiorgio, A. & Petracca, E. (2015). Razionalità incarnata. Sistemi Intelligenti, XXVII, 3, 481–50. [in Italian]
Mastrogiorgio, A. & Petracca, E. (2014). Numerals as triggers of System 1 and System 2 in the ‘bat and ball’ problem. Mind & Society, 13, 1, 135–148.
History of economic thought and methodology
Petracca, E. (2019). The rejection of Andrew G. Pikler from postwar American economics. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 26, 3, 554-586.
Petracca, E. (2018). An Antarctic expedition. Review essay of 'The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics' by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah. History of Economic Ideas, XXVI, 1, 171–184.
Petracca, E. (2016). A «geometrical heresy»: Giuseppe Palomba's economics between physics and history. Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, XXIV, 2, 105–124.
Petracca, E. (2015). Giuseppe Palomba: dalle radici ai confini dell’eterodossia economica. In La Cultura Economica in Italia nel Mezzogiorno fra le due Guerre, S. Barucci, P. Misiani and M. Mosca (Eds.), Milano: Franco Angeli, ch. 29, pp. 449–462. [in Italian]
Petracca, E. (2011). Teoria economica e storiografia economica: controversie sul metodo. In Lo Sviluppo di Verona, del Veneto e del Nord Est: Un Modello Esportabile all’Intero Paese?, G. Bernagozzi (Ed.), Padova: CEDAM, pp. 281–288. [M.Sc. dissertation extract for the Manlio Resta Prize 2010, in Italian]
Book reviews
Petracca, E. (2024). Review of 'L'Incertezza in Economia: Una Storia delle Teorie da Keynes ai Giorni Nostri', by Carlo Zappia, History of Economic Ideas, XXXII, 2, 201-204.
Petracca, E. (2024). Review of ‘A History of Ecological Economic Thought,’ by Marco P. Vianna Franco and Antoine Missemer, History of Economic Ideas, XXXII, 1, 223–225.
Petracca, E. (2022). Review of 'Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters', by Steven Pinker, Journal of Economic Methodology, 29, 4, 335-339.
Petracca, E. (2021). Review of 'Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making', by George G. Szpiro, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 43, 3, 479-482.
Petracca, E. & Scazzieri, R. (2020). Collective review of '<<La Scienza dell'Amor Patrio>>. Cultura e Politica degli Economisti Italiani dal Risorgimento alla Ricostruzione', by Riccardo Faucci, History of Economic Ideas, XXVIII, 1, 146-149.
Petracca, E. (2019). Review of 'The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist's Defence of the Market' by Robert Sugden, History of Economic Ideas, XVII, 3, 159–162
Petracca, E. (2019). Review of 'From Galileo to Modern Economics: The Italian Origins of Econophysics' by Gianfranco Tusset, History of Economic Thought and Policy, 8, 2, 129-134.
Petracca, E. (2019). Review of ‘War in the History of Economic Thought: Economists and the Question of War’ by Yukiro Ikeda and Annalisa Rosselli (Eds.). History of Economic Ideas. XXVII, 1, 179-180.
Petracca, E. (2017). Review of 'Enacting Dismal Science: New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics' by Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova (Eds.), History of Economic Ideas, XXV, 3, 173–175.
Petracca, E. (2017). Review of ‘Una Biografia Intellettuale di Vilfredo Pareto: Dalla Scienza alla Libertà (1848-1891)' by Fiorenzo Mornati, History of Economic Ideas, XXV, 1, 268–270.
Petracca, E. (2016). Review of ‘The Varieties of Economic Rationality’ by Michel S. Zouboulakis. History of Economic Ideas, XXIV, 2, 220-222.
Petracca, E. (2015). Review of ‘A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences’ by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine (Eds.). History of Economic Ideas, XXIII, 2, 226–227.
Petracca, E. (2011). Review of ‘The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History’ by Francesco Boldizzoni. EH.net review series.
Others
Petracca, E. & Gallagher, S. (2020). Economic cognitive institutions: A summary. Journal of Institutional Economics Blog, April 6, 2020.
Petracca, E. & Wooldridge, I. (2019). Extreme Cognition. Booklet printed by the Swiss Institute in Rome [available upon request].
Petracca, E. (2018). Un économiste parmi les artistes [in French], Blog post for 'Le Temps.ch', December 18 2018.
Petracca, E. (2017). Bounded rationality meets situated and embodied cognition, Blog post for 'Imperfect Cognitions', April 18, 2017.