Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marshall

ISBN-13: 9781032300467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str.

Gerald A. Cory Jr

Opis

Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marsh all explores the prophesy of Alfred Marshall, the grand synthesizer of neoclassical economics, that the "Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology".

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction   Part 1: The Biological Fundamentals   Chapter 2: Foundations: Evolutionary Brain Science in the 21st Century   Chapter 3: Our Mammalian Heritage: A Dual Motive Neurobehavioural Model   Chapter 4: The Dynamic Algorithms of Social Behaviour   Chapter 5: The Physiology of Social Behaviour  
Chapter 6: The Organic, Homeostatic Equation of our Neural Architecture   Chapter 7: Physics vs. Social Science: Some Differences   Part 2: Biological Linkages to the Discipline of Economics   Chapter 8: Family, Gift, and Market   Chapter 9: Adam Smith and the Market   Chapter 10: The Invisible Hand as a Neural Algorithm    Chapter 11: General Equilibrium Theory: From Newtonian Physics to Organic Dynamics   Chapter 12: The Social Brain and the Idealized Version of Price Theory   Chapter 13: Calculus and Neural Algorithms in Price Theory   Chapter 14: Further Application of the Basic Homeostatic Equation to Economics   Chapter 15: Self-Interest and the Fallacy of Self-Reference   Chapter 16: Hayek: Wishful Thinking and a not so Spontaneous Order   Chapter 17: Nash: Modeling Equilibrium with Beautiful Mind, Beautiful Equations   Part 3: The Wider Context   Chapter 18: The Emergence and Promise of Neuroeconomics   Chapter 19: The Larger Context: The Stiff Upper Lip, Original Sin, and Western Science   Chapter 20: Evolutionary Neuroethology and Inclusive Fitness   Chapter 21: Social Exchange and the Structure of Society   Chapter 22: Conclusion

O autorze

Gerald A. Cory, Jr., Former Senior Fellow, Graduate Studies and Research, San Jose State University (Retired)