In Iraq, the old rules just kind of kicked in and it didn't matter what the code was because there was this ill fit. But I think the answer that's emerging is that these things have to evolve endogenously. And you might be able to do things to facilitate the endogenous involvement. Jared Diamond writes about this a bit in his new book.
Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.
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