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How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers, and why do people get so emotional about financial decisions? The national bestseller The Mind of the Market uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior.

Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, psychologist Michael Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and establishing trust in business. He scrutinizes experiments in behavioral economics to understand why people hang on to losing stocks and why negotiations disintegrate into tit-for-tat disputes. He brings together findings from psychology and biology to describe how our tribal ancestry makes us suckers for brands, why researchers believe cooperation feels (biochemically) like sex, and how even capuchin monkeys get indignant if they don’t get a fair reward for their work.

Entertaining and eye-opening, The Mind of the Market explains the real science of economics.

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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 econ...more...]]> 53047178 1827634 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 3 0 false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 13:31:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 13:37:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51951469 891651 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 2 0 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:50:27 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:36:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46887892 2051258 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 19 14:07:51 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 14:11:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 28474564 478629 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 3 0 false Fri Dec 19 20:16:50 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 27 20:44:55 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:16:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 64499109 1455333 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 2 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:36:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:40:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40100154 1635103 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 4 0 false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 14 16:16:40 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 16:19:35 -0800 2009 Most chapters follow this format: identify an economic scenario, and the most rational response to it; cite studies showing people consistently do something else; refer to fMRI studies that show the parts of the brain responsible for this behavior; cite other studies showing the same or similar beha...

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I gave the book three stars, because I enjoyed very much ...more...]]> 25962535 1287112 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 2 0 false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 17:16:26 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 09:54:01 -0700 2008
For other books about why we think the way we do, check out "Pred...more...]]> 36617421 1667510 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 31 06:55:07 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 17 16:58:32 -0800 2009
Shermer introduces the idea of evolutionary economics explaining how capitalism seems to be built into our brains.]]> 12660457 716933 1960096 0805078320 9780805078329 23 <![CDATA[The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843m/1960096.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190909843s/1960096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1960096.The_Mind_of_the_Market_Compassionate_Apes_Competitive_Humans_and_Other_Tales_from_Evolutionary_Economics 3.45 80 2007 3 0 false Thu Apr 02 06:27:12 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 16 08:17:38 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 02 06:27:12 -0700 2009
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