Humanomics Quotes

“Smith strongly emphasizes that it is a fallacy to believe that our original moral perceptions of conduct are based on reason, even in those cases where general rules grow directly out of our experience and become an emergent order. These perceptions and the experience on which rules are founded are a consequence of our minds but not of reasoned thoughts:”
― Vernon L. Smith, Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century