INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE DISease burden faced by society. Many major health problems in the United States and other developed nations, such as lung cancer, hypertension, and diabetes, are exacerbated by unhealthy behaviors. Modifiable behaviors such as tobacco use, overeating, and alcohol abuse account for nearly one-third of all deaths in the United States. Moreover, rea...

1. Science fails too Philosophy of science is largely inclined to portray science as a success story. It takes as its task to explain how science manages to acquire truthful information about the world or to generate successful predictions and explanations of phenomena, and it aspires to do this by articulating the procedures and principles of science that make this success possible. While not ...

Policies to promote human capital formation have been advocated as a remedy for reducing the economy-wide problem of rising wage inequality. These policies are national in character and are designed to substantially alter the proportion of the work-force that is skilled. Yet the methods used to evaluate these policies are partial equilibrium in nature and do not take account of the consequences...

Behavioural economics is becoming increasingly popular as a way to improve public health. George Loewenstein and colleagues point out some of the pitfalls and warn that it cannot be used as a substitute for conventional policies to tackle fundamental problems.

It hardly seems surprising that Professors Jolls, Sunstein, and Thaler ("JST") have written such an interesting and provocative piece, attempting to bring the insights of "behavioral economics" to bear on the usual issues addressed by more conventional law and economics scholars. (Of course, it's plausible that I'm simply exhibiting the sort of "hindsight bias" they discuss, irrationally believ...

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neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...