The Mind of the Market
Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
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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 businContinue
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- English Books
- Hardcover 336 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0805078320
- ISBN-13: 9780805078329
- Publisher: Times Books
- Pub date: Dec 26, 2007
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The economical and political points are enthusiastically presented but insufficiently supported by science. Ironically the editor of the Skeptic magazine demonstrates no skepticism towards evolutionary psychology (EP). Considering that his own magazine published some of the better critical essays ag ... (continue)
The economical and political points are enthusiastically presented but insufficiently supported by science. Ironically the editor of the Skeptic magazine demonstrates no skepticism towards evolutionary psychology (EP). Considering that his own magazine published some of the better critical essays against evolutionary psychology in non-professional forums, Shermer's naivete in this area is baffling. I am very impressed by the author's knowledge in professional biking. Perhaps Shermer should write a book devoted to this subject.
Shermer has always been an enigma to me. He is one of the prominent American skeptics but he used to believe in all sort of weird things. He is an atheist (?) but was a fundamental Christian. He wrote a (excellent) book against Creationism but used to be a creationist. He is a professor in a university but was a professional athletic. He devoted a whole book debunking holocaust deniers but wrote an compassionate essay about one of the major players. He authored a terrific criticism aginst the cult of Ayn Rand but praises Rand with almost no reservation in this book. He calls himself a scientist but his scientific work is certainly on the very fine borderline of science. A very interesting, if paradoxical, person.
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