Today's Wibblinks 04/06/2012 (p.m.)

• How Investing Turns Nice People Into Psychopaths - Lynn Stout - Business - The Atlantic

  The problem with the homo economicus theory is that the purely rational, purely selfish person is a functional psychopath. If Economic Man cares nothing for ethics or others' welfare, he will lie, cheat, steal, even murder, whenever it serves his material interests. Not surprisingly, although homo economicus is alive and well in many economics departments, many experts today prefer to embrace behavioral economics, which relies on data from experiments to see how real people really behave. Behavioral economics confirms something both important and reassuring. Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths.

  tags: People Psychopaths Investing

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.