The Possessions Exercise (According to Geoffrey Miller)

I keep wondering why so few people on this site are interested in ideas like signaling and game theory, given their obvious implications for social software, simplicity, explanatory and predictive power. Why are so many people so resistant to mechanistic explanations of their own behavior, and what's different about the people who aren't?

Regardless, no discussion of Miller would be complete without a mention of Robin Hanson's excellent commentary series, which begins with a review of the book that inspired Spent. Read, smile, and keep clicking "next post".

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/luxury-fever.html