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The Consilient Brain

The Bioneurological Basis of Economics, Society, and Politics

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  1. Gerald A. Cory

    1. Graduate Studies and Research, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 1-3

  3. The Dynamic of Our Consilient Social Brain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs vs. Maclean’s Triune Brain

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 7-14

    3. The Conflict Systems Neurobehavioral Model

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 15-22

    4. The Global-State Algorithms of Reciprocal Behavior

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 23-27

    5. The Dynamic Equation of Our Neural Architecture

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 29-31

    6. The Homeostatic Regulation of Our Social Neural Architecture

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 33-36

    7. The Question of Science: Physics vs. Social

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 37-40

  4. Neural Architecture, Reciprocity, and the Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Reciprocity and the Evolution of the Market

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 43-48

    3. The Misrepresentation of Adam Smith

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 49-55

    4. The Neural Foundations of the Invisible Hand

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 57-62

    5. The Neural Basis of General Equilibrium Theory

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 63-66

    6. Friedrich Hayek and Wishful Thinking

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 67-71

    7. Neural Architecture and Price Theory

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 73-78

    8. Self-Interest and the Self-Reference Fallacy

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 79-81

    9. Neural Architecture and the Market Calculus

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 83-86

    10. The Neural Dynamic in Equilibrium Modeling

      • Gerald A. Cory Jr.
      Pages 87-92

  5. Neural Architecture in Political Economy and Institutional Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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About this book

The present work is the third in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s. Like the earlier works, The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics, Shaping the Rational and Moral Basis of Organization, Exchange, and Choice (Kluwer AcademicfPlenum Publishing, 1999) and Toward Consilience: The Bioneurological Basis of Behavior, Thought, Experience, and Language (Kluwer AcademicfPlenum Publishing, 2000), it may also be considered to respond to the call for consilience by Edward O. Wilson. I agree with Wilson that there is a pressing need in the sciences today for the unification of the social with the natural sciences. I consider the present work to proceed from the perspective of behavioral ecology, specifically a subfield which I choose to call interpersonal behavioral ecology. Ecology, as a general field, has emerged in the last quarter of the 20th century as a major theme of concern as we have become increasingly aware that we must preserve the planet whose limited resources we share with all other earthly creatures. Interpersonal behavioral ecology, however, focuses not on the physical environment, but upon our social environment. It concerns our interpersonal behavioral interactions at all levels, from simple dyadic one-to-one personal interactions to our larger, even global, social, economic, and political interactions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate Studies and Research, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA

    Gerald A. Cory

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Consilient Brain

  • Book Subtitle: The Bioneurological Basis of Economics, Society, and Politics

  • Authors: Gerald A. Cory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0045-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47880-2Published: 30 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4898-6Published: 24 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0045-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 234

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Economics, general

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