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: Neuroethics and Law

"Economics, Behavioral Biology, and Law"

By Adam Kolber

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Owen Jones, Erin O'Hara, and Jeffrey Stake have recently added the following article to SSRN:

"Economics, Behavioral Biology, and Law"

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 08-38
Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-19

OWEN D. JONES, Vanderbilt University - School of Law & Department of Biological Sciences
ERIN A. O'HARA, Vanderbilt University School of Law
JEFFREY EVANS STAKE, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington
The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied interdisciplinary fields of law and economics, on one hand, with law and behavioral biology, on the other - highlighting not only the most important similarities, but also the most important differences.

The article subsequently explores ways that biological perspectives on human behavior may prove useful, by improving economic models and the behavioral insights they generate. The article concludes that although there are important differences between the two fields, the overlaps between economics and biology warrant even greater congress between these two disciplines, and expanded exchange between the legal thinkers interested in each of them.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).