Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics

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".

Auteur

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

Contenu

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