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The Evolution of Fairness - Michael Shermer

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Michael_Shermer_Mind_of_the_Market

Psychologist Michael Shermer argues that our concept of "fairness" in economics has evolved over time.

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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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  • *heart* Shermer

  • I have to say, Id offer 50-50.

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  • Wait a minute...... If he rejects the offer, then no one gets any money. Therefore the person receiving the offer should take no less then 50%. Think about it. He offers you 90-10. If you say no he gets nothing. Then he offers you 50-50. You still say no he gets nothing. It would seem to me if the person receiving the offer was intelligent, the least he should take would be 50%,,, but i would ask for 90%. lol

  • @1954phyllis ... which concepts were incorrect?

  • I was going to sub until he said, "poor starving student"... I thought skeptics didn't believe in imaginary things.

  • Big Question is would Studen B say yes to a 10/90 deal, would B say no to Student A with the money is Student A wants to sacrifice himself like that?

  • Mister Shermer you don't really know what you are talking about.

  • @signatureinthecell Thanks for the vid... it was nice to see how shermer ripped meyers ass into pieces.

    Meyer's argumentation was just ridiculously wrong and prooves that he has not the slightest bit of insight in what the scientific theories he critizises are actually about.

    epic fail on his side... but we are used to that from creationists by now.

  • @signatureinthecell Ya,right. watched it and you're an idiot.

  • @signatureinthecell Meyer? The hack from the Discovery Institute?

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