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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

A three part BBC documentary series from 2007. A key part of its thesis is that the belief in the importance of game theory and quantitative measurements have led to a very narrow and problematic view of freedom in Western society.

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A new discipline called behavioral economics has been studying whether people really do behave as the simplified models say they do. Their studies show that only two groups in society actually behave in a rational, self-interested way in all experimental situations. One is economists, themselves. The other is psychopaths.