Our capacity for intuitive decision-making evolved in a world of high stakes but relatively simple decisions. Feast or forage; fight or flight. The gains of recent technological and financial innovation have been great, but they come at the cost of increased complexity. According to the tenets of rational-choice economics, this can be only a positive [...]
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How the Brain Takes Shortcuts, and Why
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