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Wednesday, January 09 2008, 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
by asmith |
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New York City Skeptics is proud to co-sponsor Michael Shermer's lecture "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics" at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Author and psychologist Michael Shermer will lecture and host a book-signing reception for his latest book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, at the New York Academy of Sciences as part of the Science & the City Author Series.
In this eye-opening exploration, Dr. Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior. How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism that evolved through natural selection?
Michael Shermer is the author of nine previous books, including the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things. He is a columnist for Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the International Skeptics Society.
Where:
The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl
New York, NY 10007-2157
When:
January 09, 2008
6:00PM -7:30PM
NYAS Members: $10
Student Non-Members: $15
Non-Members: $25
RSVP is requried. For more information visit http://nycskeptics.org/node/76 or to purchase tickets, visit www.nyas.org/authors.
All proceeds go the New York Academy of Science "Science and the City" author series. |
Location: The New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl New York, NY 10007-2157
Contact: http://nycskeptics.org/node/76 |
