The Neuroscience of Fraud

Posted on October 22, 2009
By Joe Miller |

New York Magazine discusses the conflict between Ayn Rand’s childhood in Bolshevik Russia and her unforgiving views about the eminence of indiscriminate capitalism.  Newsweek points to new research from UC Davis identifying the area of the brain (the anterior cingulate cortex) responsible for justifying our conflicting beliefs.  And a Goldman executive defends income inequality as something to be “tolerated to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”

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