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The Mind of the Market

January 9th, 2008 :: Runtime: 0:54:34

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Author Michael Shermer discusses his latest book, THE MIND OF THE MARKET: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, about how the latest brain imaging technologies are helping to reveal the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior. This lecture took place at the New York Academy of Sciences and was co-sponsored by The New York City Skeptics.

Tags: brain imaging, Economics, human behavior, Shermer

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