After all, his doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s neuroscience department. Moreover, neuroeconomists like him conduct research that is well beyond their conventional colleagues’ intellectual comfort zone, for they seek to advance some of the core concepts of economics by linking them to specific brain structures.
不过，对大部分经济学家而言，格里姆切简直就是天外来客。毕竟，其博士学位是在宾夕法尼亚大学医学院神经科学系取得的。此外，像他这样的神经经济学家，他们所采取的研究方法与他们的正统同行的知识舒适域格格不入。他们试图将经济学的核心概念与大脑的具体结构联系起来，以此推动经济学的进步。