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We are just beginning to understand ourselves as homo psychologicus. This last chapter of the book opens up our imagination of future development and application of the theory, focusing on two topics in particular: a rough structural design of an alternative measure to GDP, and a discussion on the situations when the human race might think and work together as one homo psychologicus.
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Story, H.Y. (2020). We, the Rational Homo Psychologicus. In: The Rational Homo Psychologicus. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9503-2_7
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