Opening Economics : An integrated approach of economic decisions

Presentation

In line with the expansion of the study of economic behavior beyond the logic of homo oeconomicus alone, according to the research program known as behavioral economics, based in particular on work in psychology, the time has come to also add cognitive and neurobiologists to PSE to understand the complexity and constraints of the human brain that shape economic behavior and decisions. The following are then at the center of phenomena that are nowadays often peripheral to economic analysis: memory, emotions, perception, learning, (in)attention.