neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...

this paper examines critically the contributions of cournot, jevons and walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

in spite of sonic pessimistic attitudes towards methodology of economics, it has succeeded as a central theme in numerous books, refereed journals, international conferences and symposiums whose volume is increasing at an unprecedented rate. the proliferation of methodological literature also is accompanied by a proliferation of issues that concern: the goals of economics, realism of economics,...

Using individual patient records for every hospital in California from 19832011, we find a strong inverse link between daily stock returns and hospital admissions, particularly for psychological conditions such as anxiety, panic disorder, or major depression. The effect is nearly instantaneous for psychological conditions (within the same day), suggesting that anticipation over future consumpti...

This report presents national statistics on hospital use from the U.S. National Hospital Discharge Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics and the national survey of hospitalization conducted by CREDES, Centre de Recherche d'Etude et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé, previously the Medical Economics Division of CREDOC. The use statistics compared between the two co...

1 Harvard Medical School and Division of General Medicine & Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA 2Division of Integrative Health Promotion, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, 96450 Coburg, Germany 3Harvard Medical School and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA 4Department of General Practice and Health Services...

Background As part of the EuroDRG project, researchers from eleven countries (i.e. Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Spain) compared how their Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) systems deal with cholecystectomy patients. The study aims to assist surgeons and national authorities to optimize their DRG systems.   Methods National or region...

1 Institute for Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313 Herdecke, Germany 2Department of True Naturopathy, Blankenstein Hospital, Im Vogelsang 5-11, 45527 Hattingen, Germany 3 Institute of Organic Chemistry, Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academy G. Bonchev Street, Block 9, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria 4Department of Internal and Complementary Medicine, Imma...

1Department of Internal Medicine I, 2Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne. Germany. Thomas Rath, MD A. Rubbert, MD Please address correspondence to: Thomas Rath, MD, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Received and accepted on Se...