Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions
介绍神经经济学如何通过数学表达的神经机制来预测行为，发现大脑中存在理性经济决策，也支持行为经济学中的即时偏好和非线性概率权重，并展示神经回路如何揭示偏好的状态依赖性。
Neuroeconomics seeks to ground economic theory in detailed neural mechanisms which are expressed mathematically and make behavioural predictions. One finding is that simple kinds of economising for life-and-death decisions (food, sex and danger) do occur in the brain as rational theories assume. Another set of findings appears to support the neural basis of constructs posited in behavioural economics, such as a preference for immediacy and nonlinear weighting of small and large probabilities. A third direction shows how understanding neural circuitry permits predictions and causal experiments which show state-dependence of revealed preference – except that states are biological and neural variables.