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These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But ...
Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go together with our gut. But as scientists break open the intellect’s black box together with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering this this is not how the intellect works.Our excellent decisions are a ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Award, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This ...
In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of ...