Seminario de Metodología Económica

El Seminario de Metodología Económica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, dirigido por Juan Carlos García-Bermejo, recibe el apoyo de la Fundación desde 2003 para la organización de sus sesiones mensuales. A partir del curso 2006-2007, parte de estas sesiones se organizan en el CEACS de la Fundación March

Curso 2008-2009:

• Marco Iacoboni (UCLA), "The Human Brain is Wired for Empathy" (9 de diciembre de 2009, 11:30) Se celebrará en el CEACS de la Fundación March.

Recent discoveries in the neurosciences challenge the idea of humans as ‘rational agents’ that operate and make decisions only on the basis of self-interest. The primate brain contains ‘mirror’ neurons that fire when we make an action and when we see others making the same action or an action that achieves the same goal or a complementary action. This neural mechanism may facilitate imitation and emotional resonance and may also allow a form of automatic empathy. Indeed, in humans, activity in neural systems with mirroring properties correlate with the tendency to empathize. These neuroscience discoveries make sense of seemingly puzzling choices in economic games and other forms of decision making, suggesting that humans are ‘wired for empathy’, and that these powerful mechanisms of connecting with other people should be taken into account by models of human decision making.

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Ponentes de cursos anteriores:

[2001-2003] Uskali Mäki, Philippe Mirowski, Mauricio Suárez, Fernando Broncano, Eduardo Scarano, Richard Watt, Carmen Herrero, Manuel Santos y Javier Ruiz-Castillo. [2004-2005] Toni Calvó (ICREA): "Redes sociales y logros económicos individuales" (17+18/5), Julian Reiss (UCM + LSE): "Evidence-based Economics" (24/5), Michele Boldrin (U. Minnesota): "Derechos de propiedad intelectual" (8/6) [2005-2006] John Davis (Marquette + Amsterdam) "Individuals in economics" (21/11), Tony Lawson (Oxford) "Why Reorient Economics and ...How?" (19-20/4), Alban Bouvier (Paris): "Scientific collective beliefs, acceptance and the ambiguous nature of commitments in science" (20/9) [2006-2007] Harold Kincaid (UAB): "Structural Realism and the Social Sciences" + "Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion" (4/10), Joel Sobel (UCSD): "Cheap talk" (25-26/4, Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn): "Do the right thing: But only if others do so" (25/6) [2007-2008] Christian List (LSE), "Group Deliberation and the Revision of Judgments: An Impossibility Result" (21 abril 2008, CEACS) + "Opinion Pooling on General Agendas" (22 abril, UAM), Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia): "The Nature of Salience Revisited: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory vs. Team Reasoning" (24 de octubre). [2008-2009] Paul Anand (Open U.), "New Directions in Rational and Social Choice" (23 abril 2009), Samir Okasha (Bristol), "Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn meets Arrow" (12 febrero 2009), Shaun Nichols (U. Arizona), "Emotions, norms, the moralization of fairness" (15 diciembre 2008), Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech), "Empirical Modeling and the Social Sciences: the case of Economics" (29 octubre 2008).

Occasional events:

International Network for Economic Method 2008 Conference (Madrid, 12-13 Sept 2008)

Coloquio de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Metodología Económica (Madrid, 9-10 Sept 2008)

Rethinking Popper (September 10th - 14th 2007 Prague, Czech Republic)

5th International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social choice

Seminario sobre Propiedad Industrial UAM-OEPM

El desafío del desarrollo humano. Propuestas locales para otra globalización (Bilbao, 8-10/2/2007)

4th Annual Conference on "Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment"
( October 19th -21st 2006 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Economic Modeling of Rhetoric and Argumentation (Vigo, June 2005)

Epistemology and the Social (Tenerife, September 2005)

 

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Metodología Económica

La Fundación Urrutia Elejalde ha patrocinado distintas actividades de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Metodología Económica, como su Simposio Inaugural (Morelia [México] 2000) o la edición de su primer volumen de trabajos: Ciencia económica y economía de la ciencia (FCE, 2001).