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Why Choose This Book?

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Victor Chudnovsky

Starting from Darwin and Turing, Read Montague’s Why Choose This Book? relates recent research on how minds make decisions. The critical element is a valuation mechanism that can assign weights to various alternatives, and do so cheaply. Why, indeed, does … Continue reading →

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Tightwad or principled?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Victor Chudnovsky

Over the holidays, Nicholas Kristof penned a column in The New York Times commenting on how liberals tend to not give as much to charity as conservatives, and urging us to do more. While giving to the needy is in … Continue reading →

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