Studies have determined that the Homo economicus personality is an extremely rare one. Instead, most humans are marked by a deep capacity for reciprocity, cooperation and selflessness.… TruthoutHow Economists Tricked Us Into Thinking Capitalism Works Robert R. RaymondSee also In India, the ‘development’ paradigm is premised on moving farmers out of agriculture and into the cities to work in construction, manufacturing or the service sector, despite these sectors not creating anything like...
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Even Harvard waking up and smelling the coffee?Project SyndicateThe Moral Identity of Homo EconomicusRicardo Hausmann | Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and professor of economics at the Harvard Kennedy School, formerly minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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