Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too. [1]
Monkeys make stupid economic decisions too and they're the same ones we make.
Links:[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos.html [2] http://rabble.ca/user [3] http://rabble.ca/user/register
