The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary EconomicsMacmillan, 26/12/2007 - 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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... the counterfeit of,” Tooby and Cosmides continue. “If you are a huntergatherer with few or no individuals who are deeply engaged in your welfare, then you are extremely vulnerable to the volatility of events—a hostage to fortune.”7.
... individual neurons generates the collective phenomenon of conscious thought, or what one scientist calls the “society of mind.”5 An even harder problem— what I call the really hard problem—is for science to explain how the activity of ...
... individual elements, parts, organisms, or people interact, process information, and adapt their behavior to changing conditions. These are systems that learn and grow as they evolve from simple to complex, and they are autocatalytic ...
... individuals freely exchanging in the marketplace; in socialism, prices are slow to change and are determined from above by government fiat. Money is a means of exchange and prices are the information people use to guide their choices ...
... individual is rewarded for work with a desired food and does not share it with a task partner, the partner refuses to cooperate in the future and expresses displeasure at the injustice.12 Such results suggest that all primates ...
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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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