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Introduction: Neuroeconomics of Learning and Decision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2015

Antoine Billot ,
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde  and
Anne Corcos
Antoine Billot
Affiliation:
Université Paris-2 - LEM
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Affiliation:
Université Paris-2 - LEM
Anne Corcos
Affiliation:
Université Paris-2 - LEM
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Neuroeconomics is not in 2012 a unified field, after a decade of identifiable existence. It is not clear whether it should be defined as the “old” field of neurosciences of decision-making, as part of the most recent social neurosciences, or as something else, more loosely tapping jointly into experimental economics, decision-theory and cognitive and affective neuroscience. Its boundaries then are vague, multi-layered, and it will be relatively arbitrary to restrict it to coherent confines as we will try to do. Moreover, the problem that affects the definition of neuroeconomics is not only one of extension, but one of characterizing its purposes. Is its more relevant import modeling, new facts-finding, epistemological revolution or restoration inside economics?

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 78 , Issue 3-4 , December 2012 , pp. 5 - 11
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 2012 

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