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The Mind of the Market

Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

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The Mind of the Market

By: Michael Shermer
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How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumer-traders? Why are people so emotional and irrational when it comes to money and business decisions?

Best-selling author Michael Shermer believes that evolution and evolutionary psychology provides an answer to both of these questions through the new science of evolutionary economics. Drawing on research from neuroeconomics, Shermer explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business. Utilizing experiments in behavioral economics, Shermer shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy.

Employing research from complexity theory, Shermer shows how evolution and economics are both examples of a larger and still somewhat mysterious phenomenon of emergence, where one plus one equals three. The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life.

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Even in the areas where I ultimately didn't come to the same conclusion as the author, it was still reasonably-put/well-argued from his side. Great read overall.

Very informative/interesting.

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this book will likely serve as a marvelous introduction to several important disciplines all under the umbrella of economics

excellent introduction to many topics in economics

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I like Michael Shermer's ideas and the topics he writes about. But I found the audio version of Mind of the Market lacking. It lacked a focus. Read more like a series of interesting tidbits than a cohesive book. Shermer is a good narrator, but a times was a bit hard to follow.

Interesting, but little cohesion and a so-so narra

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An excellent description abouth how our evolutionary past is still a part of us

a must read

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The behavioral psychology info was quite interesting, but I feel the author never really tied any of it to the market or economics. There were some ties pointed out, for sure, but certainly not enough to support the ostensible aim of this book.

What didn’t you like about the narrator’s performance?

TERRIBLE! Authors should not narrate their own books. Disjointed sentences, poor flow, dismal delivery. I genuinely think this book would have gained a full star had it been read by a professional or had I simply read the dead tree version.

Disappointing on many levels

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