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The Case for Mindless Economics

Oxford University Press eBooksPublished 25 April 2008
Faruk Gül, Wolfgang Pesendorfer
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TL;DR

The issue of medicines safety in Australia must cause pharmacists to reflect on the best use of the healthcare workforce to improve the quality and safety of medication use and to enable pharmacists across sectors to deliver more effective and efficient care.

Abstract

Neuroeconomics proposes radical changes in the methods of economics. This essay discusses the proposed changes in methodology, together with the the neuroeconomic critique of standard economics. We do not assess the contributions or promise of neuroeconomic research. Rather, we offer a response to the neuroeconomic critique of standard economics. † This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. We thank Drew Fudenberg and Philipp Sadowski for helpful comments and suggestions.

Keywords

Decision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance