[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmuOW6qGbx4[/youtube]
As a liberty-minded free-marketeer, I tend to have a little more faith in my fellow man and our ability to get along with each other. Doubters often suggest that there is no good reason to trust people, that people are too selfish and evil to be left to their own devices. Which view is more accurate, and how could such a ruling be judged? In this Reason Foundation video, professor of Economics Paul J. Zak discusses the burgeoning discipline of ‘Neuroeconomics’, which integrates neuroscience and economics to better describe the behavior of those most important market actors – humans – as we interact with each other.
Interesting stuff. What do you think?
