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- noun A combination of
neuroscience ,economics andpsychology used to study thedecision-making process.
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(and consequently the study of the brain's choice-making is sometimes called neuroeconomics).
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2008
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I dislike the term neuroeconomics for the same reason.
Worrying About Demand, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These findings are part of a growing field called neuroeconomics, which combines neuroscience, economics, and psychology to study how people make financial decisions.
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These findings are part of a growing field called neuroeconomics, which combines neuroscience, economics, and psychology to study how people make financial decisions.
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'neuroeconomics' - the creation and use of data on brain processes to suggest new underpinnings for economic theories, which explain how much people save, why there are strikes, why the stock market fluctuates, the nature of consumer confidence and its effect on the economy, and so on.
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'neuroeconomics' - the creation and use of data on brain processes to suggest new underpinnings for economic theories, which explain how much people save, why there are strikes, why the stock market fluctuates, the nature of consumer confidence and its effect on the economy, and so on.
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This is an example of a new scientific field known as "neuroeconomics", which trys to figure out why people trust each other, when economic theory says they won't.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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What do you make of the current trend toward combining neuroscience with other disciplines — like "neuroeconomics"?
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Their deeper point is that emerging fields of study such as neuroeconomics, economic psychology, behavioral economics, and experimental economics have "driven back the orthodoxy that economics could best be studied by purely mathematical and theoretical models."
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Their deeper point is that emerging fields of study such as neuroeconomics, economic psychology, behavioral economics, and experimental economics have "driven back the orthodoxy that economics could best be studied by purely mathematical and theoretical models."
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
vanishedone commented on the word neuroeconomics
Philosophy's Other: 'After having operated as a separate science for decades, economics is now opening up its boundaries to other disciplines. One such discipline is cognitive neuroscience. The nascent field of neuroeconomics is a booming business. Worldwide, more than a dozen of new Centers for Neuroeconomics Studies equipped with high tech brain scanners have been founded within the past few years. Several papers on neuroeconomics already found their way into prestigious academic journals such as Science and Nature. At the same time neuroeconomics meets resistance among economists... Many economists and methodologists are skeptical about the contribution neuroeconomics can make to economics.'
October 8, 2008