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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... survival during times of difficulty. The interest they have in your survival makes them, therefore, highly valuable to you. The fact that they have a stake in you means . . . that you have a stake in them. Moreover, to the extent they ...
... —the study of the economy as an evolving complex adaptive system grounded in a human nature that evolved functional adaptations to survival as a social primate species in the Paleolithic epoch in which we evolved. This.
... survive and provide for their offspring. Economies are complex systems that emerge out of the simple actions of people just trying to make a living and provide for their children. Thus, when we address (1) how economies evolved from ...
... survival and reproduction. Immunity is a selforganized emergent property of billions of cells of our immune system working together to combat bacteria and viruses. Consciousness is a selforganized emergent property of billions of ...
... survival of their hosts is what drives evolution. Out of this process of selforganized directional selection emerge ... survive: VHS over Betamax, DVDs over VHS, CDs over records, flip phones over brick phones, computers over typewriters ...
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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