Sökresultat för: George Ainslie
Picoeconomics (Pocket)
avGeorge Ainslie
ISBN: 9780521158701 - UTGIVEN: 2010-11Originally published in 1992, this book examines an elementary human paradox: that we are endangered by our own wishes; or, as Oscar Wilde put it, 'When the gods want to punish us they answer our prayers.' Even though this observation is ancient and confirmed by wide experience, none of the discipli[...]
Breakdown of Will (Pocket)
avGeorge Ainslie
ISBN: 9780521596947 - UTGIVEN: 200103Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create[...]
