the dopamine economy [3:24m]:
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Note: this story was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands!
dopamine brain
Wall Street on Drugs: What motivated these former masters of the universe? And why did they act like kindergartners? ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh speaks with
James Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT, and
Jonah Lehrer, the author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” and “How We Decide”, as well as the writer and public intellectual
Jim Holt and the Harvard economist
Alberto Alesina.
Here’s another question — don’t the continental Europeans like dopamine as much as we do? And — where do we get our fix now??
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alberto alesina,
dopamine economy,
GEC,
global economic crisis,
james poterba,
jenny attiyeh,
jim holt,
jonah lehrer,
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