forwarding below from another list... an article was published in the New York Times a couple of days ago about the new specialty of "neuroeconomics".
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/science/17NEUR.html It is described as a "revolution" in economics, and should go a long way towards addressing the reservations which have been expressed in many quarters about the scientific underpinnings of economics and the validity of its prevailing theories and methodologies. This would seem to be relevant to political science because these methodologies appear to have invaded the discipline.
