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Metaphysics of money: A special case of emerging autonomy in evolving subsystems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Robert B. Glassman
Robert B. Glassman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045 http://campus.lakeforest.edu/~glassman/
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Glassman@lakeforest.edu
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Abstract

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There is “something more” to money, as this incisive review shows. The target article's shortcoming is its overextension of the “drug” metaphor as a blend of features that do not fit the rationalistic economics and behavioral psychologies summarized as tool theories, but this may be resolved by viewing money as a particular case of the more general evolutionary phenomenon of emergent subsystem autonomy.

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Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006, pp. 186 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

Footnotes

1. I thank the fourteen undergraduates in my Psychology 325 class (“Persuasion and truth in sales communications”) for their enlivening discussion of the L&W target article during our September 26, 2005 evening meeting.