Published Papers

 

Neuroeconomics: A Critique of 'Neuroeconomics: A Critical Reconsideration' (prepared for the French Economic Review--forthcoming)[downlload from eJournal Neuroeconomics or]
[download from EconPapers]

 

Evolving Economics: Synthesis
[download here from eJournal Neuroeconomics]
[or download here from EconPapers]

 

Commentary e-letter at the Journal of Neuroscience
[click to read it here together with the article of subject]

or just download my comment here:
The correct definition of risk and ambiguity would have provided
different results

 

Book Chapter Published

Patenting Lives

Forfeited Consent: Body Parts in Eminent Domain as Chapter 5 in
Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development

Edited by Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary University of London, UK

9, 2008 c. 246 pages

Hardback 978-0-7546-7104-6 c. $99.95/ £55.00
[Find it at Amazon.com]

Contenst

Introduction: patent publics, patent cultures, Johanna Gibson;
Part 1 Context:

The legal framework surrounding patents for living materials, Tony Howard.

Part 2 Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks:

Life as chemistry or life as biology? An ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms, Kathryn Garforth;

The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms: a human rights dilemma, Adejoke Oyewunmi.

Part 3 Medicine and Public Health:

The genetic sequence right: a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials, Luigi Palombi;

Forfeited consent: body parts in eminent domain, Angela A. Stanton.

Part 4 Traditional Knowledge:

Beyond 'protection': promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand, Daniel Robinson;

Plant genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge: does the distinction between higher and lower life forms matter?, Chika B. Onwuekwe.

Part 5 Agriculture:

Analysis of farmers' willingness to pay for agrobiodiversity conservation in Nepal, Diwakar Poudel and Fred H. Johnsen;

Is more less? An evolutionary economics, critique of the economics of plant breeds' rights, Dwijen Rangnekar;

Index.

 

 

Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

 

 

Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans -PloSONE

 

 

Empathy and Oxytocin Lead to Greater Generosity -ScienceDaily