Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making

"Eleventh Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held June 19-24, 2011, Frankfurt am Main."How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped over evolutionary time through the process of natural selection. Evolution has created strong biases i…

Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain

Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…

The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation

The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda

"Reality-based arguments against right-wing fantasies: the case for reducing income inequality, rebuilding our infrastructure, investing in education, and putting people back to work."--Provided by publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States

"Energy utilization, especially from fossil fuels, creates hidden costs in the form of pollution and environmental damages. The costs are well documented but are hidden in the sense that they occur outside the market, are not reflected in market prices, and are not taken into account by energy users. Double Dividend presents a novel method for designing environmental taxes that correct market p…

The golden calf and the idol worshippers : a poem

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A brief sketch and history of the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux

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The pageant of nature

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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is tha…