Well, well. Perhaps I talked too soon this morning, in the course on the gospel of John, about the assumptions made in economics and psychology:

Daniel Friedman, Professor of Economics, will be giving the 44th annual lecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate: Beyond Fear and Greed: The Moral Roots of Financial Crises. Drawing on his 2008 book, Morals and Markets, tracing financial markets all the way back to our human origins, Professor Friedman shows why these markets have become so powerful, how they grew out of the imperative to expand trust from family and friends to wider and wider circles, how instabilities arise, and suggests some ways to mitigate future financial disasters.

This will be Monday, February 1, 2010, at 8:00 pm, in the Music Recital Hall at Performing Arts (UCSC).