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The Leonard Lopate Show / June 16, 2008 / The Evolution of Human Economics: From Hunter/Gatherers to Stock Market Traders
The Evolution of Human Economics: From Hunter/Gatherers to Stock Market Traders
Monday, June 16, 2008
How did humans go from hunting and gathering, to trading on the stock market? Michael Shermer looks into what evolution tells us about human economic behavior. His new book is The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.
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