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• 1 Tim Harford // May 17, 2005 at 7:51 pm

  Nice choice of interviewee. His book is good too.

• 2 Brian Moore // May 19, 2005 at 1:01 pm

  I like this quote best:

  “And thatââ?¬â?¢s how they should be; itââ?¬â?¢s great. Iââ?¬â?¢m a fan of that kind of boring, secular, bourgeois society.”

  Me too! I can buy my excitement on the side.

• 3 fling93 // May 25, 2005 at 6:53 pm

  Finally got around to reading this. Yeah, that was a cool interview. I particularly liked the part where he said, “What we have is a series of emotional responses to who we find convincing as a leader that were shaped by the emotional responses that were adaptive for hunter gatherers. What weââ?¬â?¢ve realized is that those are frequently rather dangerous for us in modern contexts.”

  Hmmm…