Money on the brain

Image Credit: iStockphoto

Image Credit: iStockphoto

Financial Times journalist Tim Harford investigates the fast-emerging academic field of neuroeconomics, which works to understand why people make economic decisions. BBC Radio 4 has a feature podcast available for the next 5 days which explores the thinking and experiments of leading figures in the field to test the potential of their ideas, and considers where this new discipline might lead.

Source: BBC Radio 4 , hat tip to Tom at Mind Hacks