Your Brain on Money

5 episodes

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution — all so you can make smarter financial decisions.

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8 min

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Daniel Lieberman

Anthropologist debunks Darwin’s most abused idea

He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

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8 min

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James Suzman

How to make space for “longpath” thinking

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4 min

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Ari Wallach