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Decision-making: from neuroscience to neuroeconomics—an overview
By the late 1990s, several converging trends in economics, psychology, and neuroscience had set the stage for the birth of a new scientific field...
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Economics with a biological foundation
We argue in three lectures that economics should develop on a foundation of biology. We first define what economics with biological foundation is,...
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Behavioral attitudes toward current economic events: a lesson from neuroeconomics
This paper discusses the implications of neuroeconomics with respect to behavioral attitudes toward the interpretation of current economic events. To...
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Contributions of Science of Free Will to Neuroecocnomics and Quantum Decision Theory
Although thinkers in political science and philosophy such as Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill and Robert Nozick argued that an understanding of “free...
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The “Self” and the “Others”: From Game Theory to Behavioral and Neuroeconomics
The starting point of this chapter is the evidence that the “self” is to be understood by reference to the “others”. Given this game situations offer...
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Neuroeconomics
Neuroeconomics aims at improving the science of major economic phenomena such as the formation of prices and the design and performance of...
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Experimental Methods in Behavioural Economic Sciences
The aim of the chapter is to present, basing on neo-evolutionary paradigm, the types of experimental methods used in behavioural economic sciences...
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From Aristotelian to Modern Happiness: Eudaimonia to Hedonic Hotspots
The modern (materialist) view is happiness is a chemical state of mind, a configuration of firing neurons—not a popular view. In Chapter...
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The Economics of Psychology
In the previous chapter, the transition from a unilateral to a multilateral development philosophy was evaluated. This transition involved a shift in...
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Kritiken an der Neuroökonomie
In diesem Kapitel werden wir die Kritiken, die gegen die Neuroökonomie vorgebracht werden, systematisieren und genauer untersuchen. Dazu teile ich...
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A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics
This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics. The issue of “self-interest” is discussed...
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Conclusion
The aim of this volume is to evaluate whether differences in upbringing represent a source of persistent inequality in society. The objective of this...
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Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life
There are many possible connections between the value of statistical life (VSL) and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment...
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Gender Differences in Social Discounting of Monetary Losses
In this chapter, we investigate gender differences in the social discounting of monetary losses. Based on the previous literature, we hypothesized...
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Warum Neuroökonomie? Die Ausgangssituation in den Mutterwissenschaften
Um zu verstehen, welche Ziele die Neuroökonomie verfolgt und warum, ist es hilfreich, zu Beginn einen Blick auf die Ausgangssituationen der...
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Subjective and Objective Limits of Creative Business Education
This chapter investigates the disciplinary denials of subjectivities and pluriversal nature of creative business education, examining the...
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Behavioral Insights in South Africa—A View from the Global South, Learning, Growing, and Evolving
When Behavioral Insights (BI) first informed government-led initiatives in the Western Cape Government, South Africa in 2012, it was the first of its...
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What Is Neuroeconomics?
This chapter briefly reviews the historical background of neuroeconomicsNeuroeconomics and introduces its main research topics. Neuroeconomics...
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Neuroeconomics: Genesis and Essence
Making choices and decisions is one of the most important issues in the theory of economics. Neuroeconomics is a subfield of behavioral economics...