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