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The Mind of the Market Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

Hardcover • 2008 • English

The Mind of the Market Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

By Michael Shermer

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Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural selection as the fittest way to satisfy our needs? In this eye-opening exploration, author and psych...Show more

Behavioural economics
International economics

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ISBN

9780805078329

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Mind of the Market Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

Format

Hardcover

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