Tuesday 10 October 2006
Life's so unfair (says the dorso-lateral part of the prefrontal cortex)
By Simon, Tuesday 10 October 2006: Neuroscience
Economists, when they're not busy pimping the free market as a solution to all the world's ills (such as global warming, unemployment, and high celibacy rates), come up with really cool games. One such game is called the Ultimatum game.
Solomon in an early version of the Ultimatum Game. Painting by Guiseppe Cades, Royal Academy of Arts, London