Professor Paul Glimcher

Paul Glimcher is a neuroscientist, economist, psychologist, innovator and entrepreneur. His myriad different fields and interests eventually pushed him to help develop a new field: neuroeconomics. His revolutionary interdisciplinary approach has allowed him to put forth multiple theories about how humans behave and make decisions. Glimcher has become a greatly influential figure in the field of behavioral science as a result of the research he has conducted. He has written a plethora of inspiring articles and books and is perhaps most well-known for his contribution to the textbook Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, the first text to examine the science behind economics.1 The textbook is now in its second edition and has become a standard reference for the field of neuroeconomics.

A close relationship between the theory of economics, the theory of psychology, and the theory of neuroscience could be forged – but it would have to be forged by a partial reduction… as we adjust the conceptual objects in each discipline to maximize interrelations between disciplinary levels of analysis, we achieve both a formal reduction of two theories and a broadening range of the predictive range of both theories

Paul Glimcher in Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis