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Mind Reading; The new science of decision making. It's not as rational as you think.
Byline: Jerry Adler (With Mary Carmichael)
In the control room next door are Steven Quartz, a Caltech neuroscientist, and Colin Camerer, an economist, who are looking inside my brain to help understand some of the most vexing problems in postmodern society--irrational market bubbles, intractable Third World poverty and loser brothers-in-law who want to borrow $5,000 to open a franchised back-rub parlor. My brain was helping science explain why, despite centuries of progress in economic theory since Adam Smith, actual human beings so often refuse to behave as equations say they should.
For all its intellectual power and its empirical success as a creator ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 4, 2002 700+ words
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- Brain Exercise Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch[TM].
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Source: HighBeam Research, Mind Reading; The new science of decision making. It's not as...