voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2015-12-124-137voprecotest-151Research ArticleВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРИИISSUES OF THEORYНейробиология и новые возможности экспериментальной экономикиNeurobiology and New Opportunities for Experimental EconomicsРаквиашвилиА. А.RakviashviliA.

к. э. н., доцент экономического факультета МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова (Москва)

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Статья посвящена оценке первых достижений новой ветви междисциплинарных исследований на стыке экономической теории и нейробиологии. Проведен анализ основных результатов новых исследований, а также представлены ключевые направления критики нейроэкономики и ее сравнение с другими направлениями экспериментальной экономики. Показано, что несмотря на ряд интересных результатов, новое направление не сможет радикально изменить экономическую теорию в силу методологических ограничений, а также из-за различий в предмете исследований нейробиологов и экономистов.

The article appraises the first achievements of the new branch of interdisciplinary research in the intersection of neurobiology and economics. The analysis of the main results of the new studies and the key areas of criticism of neuroeconomics are presented. The author claims that despite a number of interesting results, neuroeconomics will not be able to radically change economics due to methodological limitations and because of significant differences in the research subjects in neurobiology and economics.

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