The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary EconomicsMacmillan, 2007 M12 26 - 336 páginas Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about money |
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... choices in assessing the credit risk of people we encounter. In evolutionary theory the larger problem to be solved here is altruism: why should I sacrifice my genes for someone else's genes? Or, more technically, an altruistic act is ...
... choices. When evolutionary thinking and modern psychological theories and techniques are applied to the study of human behavior in the marketplace, we find that the theory of Homo economicus—which has been the bedrock of traditional ...
... choice was problematic. When my advisers also warned me about the dubious university job market for theologians, and my parents began to wonder aloud what I was planning to do for a living, I switched to psychology, where I discovered ...
... choices are brought to market, there is a cumulative selection for those deemed most useful or desired, with the selection conducted by consumers in the marketplace who vote with their dollars on which will survive: VHS over Betamax ...
... choices. Mises demonstrated that socialist economies depend on capitalist economies to determine what prices should be assigned to goods and services. And they do so cumbersomely and inefficiently. Ultimately, free markets are the only ...
Contenido
Of Pandas Products and People | |
Minding Our Money | |
The Extinction of Homo Economicus | |
The Value of Virtue | |
Why Money Cant Buy You Happiness | |
Trust with Credit Verification | |
The Science of Good Rules | |
Dont Be Evil | |
Free to Choose | |
To Open the World | |
Acknowledgments | |
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The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives Michael Shermer Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other ... Michael Shermer Vista previa limitada - 2008 |