Economics is Psychology, which is Biology

I’m reading John Maynard-Smith’s Evolution and the Theory of Games. If you want to understand economics, which is psychology, you have to understand biology. Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applicable to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it has originally designed. There are two reasons […]

First things first

Just recently I came across ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’ in humans, reading ‘the price of tomorrow’ by Jeff Booth. In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) proposed a theory that all humans possess a hierarchy of needs from basic need to self-actualization: some needs were more important than others, and needs on one level must […]

My Evolutionary Journey

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and balanced flexibility is my super power I was born and raised in #RioDeJaneiro and that in part defines who I am. #DomenicoDeMasi says that #Flexibility is the biggest quality and the biggest flaw in #Brazilians. My #SuperPower is to balance it to be a competitive […]