Why do you go to the hospital, take medicine, or go to school? Robin Hason comes on the podcast to chat about motivations and why we often do get them wrong.
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Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkely. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.
Dr. Hanson's personal homepage includes his work in academic economics, class materials, and a sampling of his broader interests in economics, philosophy, political theory, alternative institutions, and the economics of science fiction.
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life