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Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Thomas C. Schelling

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The Golden Rule and Self-Restraint 5 out of 5 stars.
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Schelling's book covertly drafts a model of economic support for the Golden Rule. While many of his examples may be repetitive, ultimately, we learn that by restraining ourselves in various enterprises, such as energy conservation, we are able to produce overall benefits for society. However, the hitch is that without critical mass or some basis for keeping rebels in line, no one adheres to the collective system and therefore no one benefits. Thus, the author intelligently posits an argument that in properly regulated environments, cooperation and selflessness produce stability and will lead to long-term success.

What is more interesting are Schelling's numerous examples and asides about human behavior that, once examined carefully, yield a greater understanding about everyday phenomena. For example, he writes, "Most people think that inflation reduces purchasing power without stopping to notice that their own pay increases are somebody else's inflation, and at least some of it must cancel out." This book is filled with such astute and not easily apparent statements. He also carries economic theory into social theory, showing that if all men married women four years younger than them where population is growing at three percent annually, eventually women of marrying age may outnumber men by more than 12%. The book has several of these nuggets, but leaves out an obvious and one of my favorite lessons about education: when a student goes to school, s/he not only "loses" the money s/he spends on tuition, but also her/his earning power during the years spent studying. For this reason, one could argue that it seems more sensical to attend school when there is a recession and to work when unemployment is low.

The glaring gap in this book is the problem of freeloaders--what do we do, for example, about the neighbor who waters his lawn excessively during a water shortage, thereby creating less incentive for others to conserve water? The author most likely believes that education will assist this problem, but this may be an idealistic notion at best. Still, Schelling manages to prove that cooperation rather than competition in some cases may produce better results, leading to viable arguments against selfish behavior.

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Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."—official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize

Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these stories—how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group—is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations.

The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions

Read Montague

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Great book ... be aware - same book as "Why Choose This Book" 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 16 people found this review helpful.

This is one of my favorite books. Unfortunately, it was not mentioned anywhere that this is the same book as "Why Choose This Book" before I purchased it.

I guess this was not selling with the other name, or the title was badly chosen in terms of describing what the book was about.

I was hoping that this book was going to be a refinement and elaboration of his ideas in "Why Choose This Book" instead of the same book.

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“A fascinating introduction” (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making

One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind’s decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with goals like food, water, and sex, why do we make choices that go against our own biological best interests? Where do values come from? What role do emotions play? From how we decide what we consume to the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, Read Montague guides readers through a new approach to the mind that is both entertaining and illuminating.

Wise Choices: A Spiritual Guide to Making Life's Decisions

Margaret Silf

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Simple, Elegant, Excelent 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a wonderful book, packed with a lot of very focused, good advice and guidance---and without a lot of unnecessary stories (something I, personally, get bogged down in reading other growth & wisdom books). The only complaint I have---which is something my partner appreciated---was the formatting of the text in the book: All of the text is centered on the page. My partner appreciated that, because it allowed her to break up each of the sentences on the page into a thought---like reading a poem. However, I am very visually sensitive, and the formatting added an additional challenge to my reading experience. But don't let that stop you from reading this excellent work!

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With advice that combines ancient spiritual traditions with the common sense of the 21st century, this book offers soothing and practical guidance to the frazzled decision-maker. Those concerned about making the best choices can find techniques for broadening their way of thinking and effectively solving problems that also make sense for them spiritually. From everyday choices to landmark decisions, this book will simplify problem-solving and guide readers through all stages of life.

From High Heels to Bunny Slippers: Surviving the Transition from Career to Home (Capital Lifestyles)

Christine Conners

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Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional woman to stay home with her young children is the right one. In From High Heels to Bunny Slippers, she supports their decision to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potential negative effects on young children, as well as her own firsthand experience as a co-founder of the NASA child development centers. Unlike previous books aimed at this growing readership, Conners recognizes and addresses mothers’ adjustment problems that, like any major life event, arise from the decision to quit your job and stay home. She offers tools and strategies that gently lead the professional woman from the challenge of her work world into the new challenges of parenting full-time. She sympathizes, as a stay-at-home mother herself, with the immediate frustrations of loss of personal identity, financial difficulties, depression, and marital discord. As a mental health professional, she offers her proven techniques for forming a strong new identity as a parent when you leave your career, for addressing financial woes through part-time work and money-saving strategies, for overcoming social isolation, depression, anger, and stress, and for finding personal fulfillment during this special time with your young children.

Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

Jim Keith

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The Bad Reviewers Here Are Clueless Morons- Disregard Them 5 out of 5 stars.
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Jim Keith meticulously researched this book, ... I challenge anyone who thinks this is a work of "fiction" to come to that conclusion after first visiting the following websites where you can learn a lot of factual information about the MKULTRA program which verifies what Keith is saying: ... Website of John Mecca who is under MKULTRA Mind Control and who is trying hard to warn people. ...That is the website of Advocacy Committee Human Experimentation Survivors- and Mind Control These are people who have suffered the torment of the damned at the hands of the CIA, which is doing the bidding of the Illuminati to set the stage for forcing us into a psychocivilized society with everyone to be put under electronic mind control.Check out this website which shows actual US patents on Mind Control/Behavioral Modification Technology.... and this is only the tip of the iceburg because its the declassified stuff: ...

Check out this free online book: Blueprint for a Prison Planet- The Plan to Microchip Humanity: ...

Check out ...Anti NSA Section, last bullet pointed item is a lawsuit of John St.Claire Akwei vs NSA. In it he details NSA's scientific capabilities for doing Remote Neural Monitoring. Akwei is one of thousands of victims of CIA black ops human experimentation.

Also, I happen to know that Jim Keith was killed for writing this book. He is no longer alive. He was a friend of mine, and what happened to him could happen to me at any time for trying to expose the same things. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The people who gave this book bad reviews are either fools or NSA debunkers who don't want people to read the book.

Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions

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To the list of writers connecting mainstream readers and cutting-edge science—Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Johnson, James Surowiecki—add Read Montague, with this exploration of what exactly determines the choices we make.

With a new perspective on the science of decision-making from the researcher at the center of the computational neuroscience revolution, Why Choose This Book? shows what the latest brain science reveals about the crucial events of everyday experience—the choices we make. From how we decide what we consume to what kind of art we like, and even the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, Read Montague guides the reader through a new approach to the mind with an accessible style that is both entertaining and illuminating.

In taking apart the mind’s decision-making machinery, Montague first illustrates how our brains are like computers that are slow, small, fuzzy, and cheap—and began with goals like food, water, and sex. Second, he reveals how simple goals like these then turn into ideas like beauty, love, and terror with a life of their own. Finally, he explains how a value system in our heads controls those ideas so we can make good decisions—and how that physical system can break down leading to bad decisions, addictions, mental illness, and even large economic disasters.

I Never Knew I Had a Choice

Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey

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Book a Worthwhile Purchase 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I Never Knew I Had a Choice is not only the best textbook I ever used, it's the book that has had a larger impact on me than any other single book. I first discovered this book as part of an applied psychology class called Psychology of Adjustment and it brought me innumerable insights that helped me to become a better person. Don't just buy this book: read it and actually do the exercises.

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Thousands of readers have been touched by Jerry and Marianne Corey's warm, frank, and very personal book, I Never Knew I Had a Choice. This book is designed to help students expand their self-awareness as they explore the significant choices available to them in the various dimensions of life. As students work through the book's self-inventories, exercises, and activities and read the first-person accounts of the choices real people have made in response to challenging life events, they will begin to explore themselves, their lives, and their beliefs and attitudes in a way that is personally empowering.

Choice Points: Navigate Your Career Using the Unique PaperRoom Process

Sydney Rice

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What you don't see can hurt you: Hidden habits, unexamined beliefs, and old expectations grow from strategies you've developed to survive. These "silent partners" make change difficult. You feel stuck, trapped in terminal disatisfaction, and hungry for congruence between work and life, according to career coach Sydney Rice.

CHOICE POINTS shows you how to create the career you want and maintain control over success and quality of life. Join Rice's clients in tracing work and life paths through discovery in The PaperRoom (TM)--Rice's groundbreaking inquiry process for career exploration and discovery.

Rice's proven, user-friendly tools optimize effectiveness. You'll make invisible assumptions appear, acknowledge successes, and develop strategies that meet needs and values as new options blossom. Personal inquiry exercises will uncover blocks to change, then stretch old thinking with new practices. Scanning for content and context of current and past work, focusing on what's most satisfying, then bringing together all the information to take action, you will build from peak experiences to make personally and professionally fulfilling career choices. And you can use the author's book group guidelines to assemble a team of fellow travelers seeking a unique and meaningful career path.

The Choice Is Always Ours: The Classic Anthology on the Spiritual Way

Dorothy Berkley Phillips

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A Rich Compilation of Spritual Wisdom 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

If I could only read one book for the rest of my life, this would be it

My all time favorite spiritual book, bar none 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

My copy is dog eared, underlined in various colors and read and reread. This compilation from many different ages, fields and worlds is the best companion I know for inspiration for the spiritual path.

The best companion for a life's journey 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has been my spiritual compass for 24 years. In that time I have found no other to equal the inspiration derived from it.

Not a coaster or a doorstop 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is one of those books that never stays on the shelf. In fact, it is almost always lent out. Which is why I bought this copy. My husband already owned a copy, but we wanted a second one so we could always have one on hand. It is a collection of spiritual readings from many sources. Selections include Socrates, Jung, Freud, Jesus Christ, Saint Francis of Assissi... The selections all have one thing in common, a search for Spiritual Truth.

The Choice Is Always Ours 5 out of 5 stars.
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Someone gave me a copy of this book many years ago. I either lost it or loaned it to someone. I have since given away many copies, often saving out one for myself and then giving it away again. It's a remarkable guide to deep, mature, spiritual living. It lines up modern, ancient, and in-between writers, all of whom are leading us deeper within ourselves. Artists, religious writers, psychiatrists, ancient and modern philosophers, all describe in a variety of ways how to achieve inner balance and then describe what such a life might be like.

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Essays discuss spiritual growth, prayer, meditation, psychotherapy, fellowship, renewal, creativity, and worship.

CONOCE EL PODER DE TU CAMPO CUANTICO

Anderson, Brenda

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A menudo pensamos que nuestra vida se encuentra a merced de todo tipo de circunstancias y de fuerzas externas que nos hacen navegar a su capricho. Este libro demuestra que, por el contrario, todos tenemos el poder de dar forma a nuestra propia existencia, y que sólo de nosotros depende conseguir más plenitud y más éxito. Brenda Anderson argumenta que todo en el universo está interconectado y muestra cómo utilizar el campo cuántico para tomar el control de nuestra propia vida y llevarla a la Zona de Poder. / Brenda Anderson presents a fresh approach to everyday life based on the premise that everyone and everything in the universe are interconnected, and she shows you how to play the quantum field to create success and joy at home or on the job. She posits that the old rules no longer apply and presents a new set of rules, which include ten energetic choices you can make to take control of your life and move into what she calls the Power Zone. Once you grasp how easy it is to move among the choices along the energy spectrum, each day will become a dynamic, empowering exploration of the unlimited potential of the Field.