Posted on 17/05/08
Putting science into the dismal science
THE MIND OF THE MARKETCompassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary EconomicsBy Michael ShermerTimes Books, 308 pages, $30I'm about to review a book on economics for you ... no, no, stop, don't turn the page! It's a readable, entertaining book - about lots of things you don't associate with "economics." Like Freakonomics, you'll find no graphs or calculus here, just a wee bit of jargon, and you'll get to read about sex and chimps, the brain wave for shopping, why biology makes us kind and dozens of other unusual topics you never studied in Econ 101.
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