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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Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer. Praise for The Mind of the Market “[A] captivating raconteur of all the greatest hits of behavioral, evolutionary and neuropsychology ...
... evolutionary roots of our sense of fairness and justice, and shows how this rationale extends to the market. . . . Offers much insight into human behavior and rationales regarding money.” —Publishers Weekly “The Ripley's Believe It or ...
... evolutionary lesson related to the Bestseller Effect. Imagine that you are a banker with a limited amount of money to lend. If you advance loans to people who are poor credit risks, you are taking a great gamble that they will default ...
Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer. call this the Banker's Paradox, and they apply it to a deeper evolutionary problem: to whom should we extend our friendship? The ...
... evolutionary past was no picnic. Evolution, it is suggested, would have selected for adaptations to work around the Banker's Paradox dilemmas, including selecting us to (1) seek recognition from our fellow group members for our ...
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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