ADD Cast 055 – Dr. Michael Shermer Part 1
February 2nd, 2008 by pfischer
Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.
www.michaelshermer.com
Dr. Shermer’s Books Available at Amazon.com
Music: Think For Yourself by George Hrab ( music, podcast, concerts in your home, Balticon )
Promo: Morevi Remastered
Promo: Stranger Things
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February 4th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
As usual, a very, very interesting podcast.
Question: Are there inherent problems modeling systems which exhibit emergent properties, whether markets or biomes, if the components of those system are aware of the operation and mechanisms of the whole?
In other words, would modeling a market whose component parts are more or less unaware of the larger picture would be a different problem than modeling a market whose component parts have considerable intelligence about the larger picture, and act upon it accordingly?