Thursday 18 June 2009

Regulation by Prescription...

I really like this story on gambling rats from the BBC.  And I like this story from the FT about vending machines in Germany that one can buy gold from.  And I like the tangents both stories are forming in my brain.  Like, why not just make the gold machine a gambling machine?  If you placed it next to a vending machine for cigarettes, you could capitalize on the effects of dopamine and get people to place more and more money in them...

On the science side of human behavior, perhaps the bankers need to be handed some kind of dopamine inhibitor to keep the appetite for risk lower?  Regulation by Prescription?

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