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Michael Shermer: The Mind of the Market

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Partner:: Tattered Cover
Location:: Tatterred Cover
Denver, CO
Event Date:: 01.17.08
Speaker:: Michael Shermer
Tags:: investment; wall street; stock market

Summary: Michael Shermer discusses his newest book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.

Psychologist Michael Shermer, the author of nine previous books, including the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things, is a columnist for Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the international Skeptics Society - Tattered Cover

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Michael Shermer

Psychologist Michael Shermer, the author of nine previous books, including the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things, is a columnist for Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the international Skeptics Society.

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01 hr 13 min 51 sec

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01.: Introduction

01 min 44 sec

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02.: Skeptic Magazine

04 min 34 sec

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03.: Jesus' Economic Allegory

03 min 38 sec

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04.: The Matthew Effect

04 min 11 sec

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05.: Economic Growth in Human History

04 min 19 sec

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06.: Evolution of Free Markets

05 min 15 sec

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07.: Darwin and Adam Smith

08 min 18 sec

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08.: Free Trade and Tariffs

04 min 39 sec

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09.: Social Dynamics

04 min 39 sec

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10.: Moral Dilemmas

06 min 08 sec

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11.: Intrinsic Sense of Justice

02 min 45 sec

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12.: Oxytocin and Generous Offers

02 min 39 sec

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13.: Trust and Trade

06 min 49 sec

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14.: Q1: Increasing Market Regulation

02 min 28 sec

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15.: Q2: Origin of Moral Rules

01 min 00 sec

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16.: Q3: Poor Understanding of Economy

01 min 39 sec

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17.: Q4: Charity and Giving

02 min 40 sec

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18.: Q5: Why Americans are More Religious

02 min 32 sec

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19.: Q6: Overcoming Social Conditioning

03 min 38 sec

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The Free Market Philosophy of Adam Smith

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Author Michael Shermer argues that levying tariffs on foreign goods contradicts the free market philosophy of Adam Smith.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

market: Means by which buyers and sellers are brought into contact with each other and goods and services are exchanged. The term originally referred to a place where products were bought and sold; today a market is any arena, however abstract or far-reaching, in which buyers and sellers make transactions. The commodity exchanges in London and New York, for example, are international markets in which dealers communicate by telephone and computer links as well as through direct contact. Markets trade not only in tangible commodities such as grain and livestock but also in financial instruments such as securities and currencies. Classical economists developed the theory of perfect competition, in which they imagined free markets as places where large numbers of buyers and sellers communicated easily with each other and traded in commodities that were readily transferable; prices in such markets were determined only by supply and demand. Since the 1930s, economists have focused more often on the theory of imperfect competition, in which supply and demand are not the only factors that influence the operations of the market. In imperfect competition the number of sellers or buyers is limited, rival products are differentiated (by design, quality, brand name, etc.), and various obstacles hinder new producers' entry into the market.; market on britannica.com

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unbounded_thinker

Posted: 04.24.08, 06:31 PM

I'm favorably impressed. I'm going to buy the book. I'm also a libertarian, and intend to vote for Wayne Allyn Root at the National Libertarian Convention (and in the general election) so we can have _more free markets_. http://www.rootforamerica.com