The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Riht: We have a wide range of reasons we give for things. As social scientists, we tend to take these things at face value as our initial point for starting an analysis. But if you will just reconsider these basic assumptions about what things are for, you can make a lot of sense about these puzzles. Ah, they don't look as strange any more, but you just have to go back to basics and say, well, maybe school isn't about learning the material. Maybe hospitals aren't about getting better. Maybe charity isn't about making them suffer less. I we're saying that may all be true about those cynics, nevertheless, they're often right about a what

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