In this post, Mark Thoma passes along some research findings from brain scans.
The pleasure of orgasm, the high from cocaine, the rush of buying Google Inc. at $450 a share — the same neural network governs all three
I once heard a tape where the speaker said that in the Buddhist tradition there is a single harmful emotion that is lust and greed–the claim being that you cannot have one without the other. I guess that modern science confirms this ancient wisdom.
READER COMMENTS
Ivan Kirigin
Feb 2 2006 at 4:31pm
Harmful?
Or just self-interested?
😀
This is certainly related
http://www.econlib.org/archives/2006/02/happy_101st_bir.html
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