Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics

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

• 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