Neuroeconomics: two camps gradually converging: what can economics gain from it?

Neuroeconomics: two camps gradually converging: what can economics gain from it?

Neuroeconomics started off as a hybrid project. Two camps, behavioral economics in the scanner (BES) and Glimcher’s economics of neural activity (ENA), could be clearly distinguished. The camps disagreed not only about substantive issues but also about what neuroeconomics ultimately aims to accomplish. Recent developments suggest that the gap between the two camps is closing, however. There is ...

Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics

Who knows what I want to do? Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something like that? Isn’t it all a question of brain chemistry, signals going back and forth, electrical energy in the cortex? How do you know whether something is really what you want to do or just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain. Some minor little activity takes place somewhere in this unimporta...

Chapter 7. What Can Neuroeconomics Tell Us About Economics (and Vice Versa)?

Neuroeconomics is now a relatively well established discipline at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and economics. It has its own societies, conferences, textbooks1 and graduate courses. The number of articles2 that contain the word ‘neuroeconomics’has grown from essentially zero in 2000 to around 900 a year in 2009 and 2010. The mainstream media has found the concept of neuroeconomi...

Department of Economics – Neuroeconomics Seminar

Department of Economics – Neuroeconomics Seminar