Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27873 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 108
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Neuroeconomics stays in the center of the ongoing naturalistic turn in economics. It portrays the individual as a complex system of decision making mechanisms and modules. This results into a conceptual tension with the standard economic notion of the unity of the actor that is a systemic property of economic coordination. I propose to supplement neuroeconomics with a naturalistic theory of social coordination. Recent neurobiological and psychological research strongly supports claims made by some heterodox economists that the identity of actors emerges from social interaction, especially in the context of the use of language. Therefore, I argue that the completion of the neuroeconomic paradigm requires a naturalistic theory of language. I provide some sketches based on teleosemantics and memetics, and exemplify the argument by a naturalist account of money.
Subjects: 
Naturalism
neuroeconomics
individual identity
language and economics
naturalistic theory of social interaction
JEL: 
A12
B41
D87
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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