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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... living, I switched to psychology, where I discovered the language of science, in which I flourished. Theology is based on logical inquiry, philosophical disputation, and literary deconstruction. Science is founded on empirical data ...
... development office and inquired what I might do for a living with a master's degree. “What are you educated to do?” they inquired. “Train rats,” I replied sardonically. “What else can you do?” they persisted. “Well,” I.
... trilogy: Why People Believe Weird Things, How We Believe, and The Science of Good and Evil.20 It is no less so with evolutionary economics. To that end, economics is for everyone. 1 THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD Living along the Orinoco River.
... Living along the Orinoco River that borders Brazil and Venezuela are the Yanomamö people, huntergatherers whose average annual income has been estimated at the equivalent of about $100 per person per year. If you walk into a Yanomamö ...
... living in small bands, and that this environment created a psychology not always well equipped to understand or live in the modern world. In essence, in trying to explain the Great Leap Forward, I am addressing three problems about the ...
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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