What are transaction cognitions? Transaction cognitions are the specialized mental models or
scripts (Arthur, 1994a; Neisser, 1967; Read, 1987) that guide individuals’ economic responses to
three principal sources of variability in their economic behavior: bounded rationality (BR),
opportunism (O), and specificity (S) (Williamson, 1985).

以上文字来源：http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.ronaldmitchell.org/publications/mitchell%25202001%2520monograph.pdf Transaction cognition theory and high performance economic results,Ronald K. Mitchell,2001.

根据上述文字，我将它翻译成“交易认知理论”——研究新制度经济学（主要是治理结构？）的认知学基础，应当属于边缘交叉学科。我对这方面了解甚少，最好听下nie版主的意见。