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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... people who are poor credit risks, you are taking a great gamble that they will default on their loans and you will go out of business. This sets up a paradox: the people who most need the money are the worst credit risks and thus cannot ...
... 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 village and count up the stone tools, baskets, arrow points, arrow shafts, bows ...
... people just trying to make a living and provide for their children. Thus, when we address (1) how economies evolved from huntergathering to consumertrading, (2) how the human brain evolved to operate in a huntergatherer economy but must ...
... people select the goods and services that are best suited to meet their unique needs and desires in a particular market. Note that in neither evolution nor economics is there a topdown designer to oversee the entire system. In life, no ...
... people search for the best price they can find to reach their destinations. Airlines have sophisticated software programs that adjust the prices according to supply and demand for particular routes, the number of seats available at any ...
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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