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Media Archive 2011

How do we cooperate?

ZURICH.MINDS - December 2011

Ernst Fehr, interviewed by Rolf Dobelli, Founder and Chairman of the ZURICH.MINDS Foundation

Podcast

 

Economics versus philosophy

Sternstunde Philosophie, SF1 - November 13, 2011

In einem kontroversen Gespräch diskutieren der Ökonom Ernst Fehr und der Philosoph Richard David Precht darüber, welche Disziplin heute Antworten für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft liefern kann.

Podcast (German)

Article (German)

 

Living on credit – Debt at any price?

Campus DOKU, BR-alpha - October 31, 2011

Debts are part of our everyday life and completely normal - for individuals as well as nations. 38 percent of all Germans have already taken out at least one loan.

Article (German)

 

Searching for costs in the brain

www.dasGehirn.info – funded by the Hertie Foundation and the German Neuroscience Society in cooperation with the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe - October 16, 2011

Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich have their own neuroscience laboratory where they are investigating the mechanisms of human decisions. A look behind the scenes.

Article (German)

 

Ernst Fehr – The man who is changing the field of economics

ECO, SF1 - October 10, 2011

Der Mensch ist egoistisch und rational: So steht es seit Hunderten von Jahren in den Wirtschaftsbüchern. Völlig falsch, sagt der Zürcher Wirtschaftsprofessor Ernst Fehr. Er hat nachgewiesen, dass Solidarität und Fairness eine grosse Rolle spielen, wenn Wirtschaftssubjekte auf dem Markt agieren. Anfangs für seine Forschung belächelt, kann Fehr es sich heute leisten, Angebote von amerikanischen Top-Universitäten abzulehnen.

Podcast (German)

 

How fair sanctions are orchestrated in the brain

UZH News - October 6, 2011

Scientists from the universities of Zurich and Basel reveal that two frontal regions of the brain need to interact with one another when people punish unfair partners at their own expense. Neuroscientists Thomas Baumgartner and Daria Knoch and economist Ernst Fehr combined a brain stimulation method with a method for measuring brain activity in order to explore this neuronal network. The new findings could also be significant for therapeutic use in psychiatric and forensic patients.

Article (English)

Article (German)

 

Sex hormones that promote trust: Trust in strangers thanks to oxytocin

UZH News - May 25, 2011

When economic and biological research meet, neuroeconomics emerges. In the framework of a lecture series organized by the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), the renowned economics professor Ernst Fehr presented his findings from the still relatively young field of neuroeconomics to a broad audience.

Article (German)

 

People can be good, absolutely: Neuroeconomist Christian Ruff on the biological foundations of decision making

NZZ Online - May 23, 2011

Humans understand many things - just not their own brain too well. Neuroeconomists want to find out why we make certain decisions rationally and others irrationally. They show us ways to optimize our decisions. Will this knowledge someday make us better investors, managers, citizens, or even humans?

Article (German)

 

That's how high the return on a child's education is: The economic value of early childhood education intervention

NZZ am Sonntag - May 22, 2011

Early childhood education pays: Now even economists recognize its value. Intervention is not only socially just, but in the long run exceptionally profitable.

Article (German)

 

Vorarlberg Science Award for Ernst Fehr

ORF - April 11, 2011

Ernst Fehr received this year’s Vorarlberg Science Award. The award is given by the Austrian state of Vorarlberg to acknowledge outstanding achievements in science. It is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Article (German)

Podcast (German)

Article (German)

 

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