About this title: Bestselling author and psychologist Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money. Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and establishing trust in business.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805078329ISBN:0805078320
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Great outside, and inside. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 308 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805078329ISBN:0805078320
Description: Good. Several pages dog-eared but they're clean with no notes/highlights/underlines, partial cloth covers in great shape/DJ also nice, First Edition stated/First Printing 2007 (1M). read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Holt Paperback, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:0100805089160
Description: Very Good. First paperback edition, first printing. Book is pristine, has no marks or cracks to the spine BUT it slid under my front car seat and I bent back the lower right hand corner of the front cover while sliding it out. If not for this, it would have received a "fine" or ""near fine" rating. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805078329ISBN:0805078320
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light edgewear to book and jacket, corners bumped and rounded, internally excellent, clean, unmarked. read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Excellent condition. First edition. Appears unread. Gift quality. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Free track! Satisfaction guarenteed! Fast ing! read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805078329ISBN:0805078320
Description: Bestselling author and psychologist Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money. Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, sna... read more
"Dense and difficult to get through. Felt like a textbook. I didn't finish. The first half of every chapter essentially explains the definitions for different theories of evolution and psychology. The rest of the chapter reiterates the definitions and vaguely relates them back to the theme of the chapter. Great topic, but written in a completely unapproachable style."
This is a lively, entertaining, useful and uneven work. Author Michael Shermer ranges over an array of disciplines to synthesize current understanding of the intersection of economics and evolution. He defines and debunks homo economicus, or the economic man, a theoretical creation who behaves in a purely rational fashion. Shermer weaves personal experiences with interviews of researchers, summaries of classic texts, and contemporary experiments and observations of such well-known businesses cases as the Enron debacle. Readers with knowledge of behavioral economics or negotiation will find some familiar material in this book. For others, Shermer's connections among biology, psychology, economics and ethics will be enlightening. He overreaches at times, making sweeping claims for the power of the market, but you don't have to agree with every conclusion to enjoy the work. getAbstract recommends this to readers who are interested in behavioral economics, self-knowledge or the machinations of markets."
"This book is not as much a review of biology and evolutionary psychology as it is a (rather weak) defense of free-market capitalism. Sadly, it fails on its attempts to deliver genuine insight into either psychology or economics.
I gave the book three stars, because I enjoyed very much the chapters on happiness and virtue."
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