Scientists Develop Novel Use Of Neurotechnology To Solve Classic Social Problem

Economists and neuroscientists have shown that they can use information obtained through functional magnetic resonance imaging measurements of whole-brain activity to create feasible, efficient, and fair solutions to one of the stickiest dilemmas in economics, the public-goods free-rider problem -- long thought to be unsolvable. This is one of the first-ever applications of neurotechnology to real-life economic problems, the researchers note.

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