Thursday, July 29, 2010

Monkeynomics!!

That famous one from the last chapter of Super Freaknomics (Monkey Business)

"When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys responded quite rationally to simple incentives; responded irrationally to risky gambles; failed to save; stole when they could; used money for food and, on occasion, sex. In other words, they behaved a good bit like the creature that most of Chen's more traditional colleagues study: Homo sapiens."


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