The aim of this research program, funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), is to explore new avenues of how psychological and neuroscientific knowledge about human motivation, emotion and social cognition can inform models of economic decision making in addressing global economic problems. In particular, the program seeks to generate a new generation of economic models that explore the opportunities for more cooperative, pro-social and sustainable economic behaviors. This research aims at providing a new vision of a "caring economics."
