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The global economy collapsed in 2008, it was not only the selfish and the charitable that suffered, the poor suffered the most. Cultures, markets and people around trade goods and ideas, making it impossible for us to be insular. We are interdependent beings that need each other on every level, economically and even more so for happiness.

Tania wants to know if its possible to merge concepts that are widely studied in Psychology and Buddhist pedagogy that is highly developed such as compassion and altruism, be merged with the competitive economic system. Is it possible for humanitarian values and prosocial motivation to be applied to economic scholarship?

Tania wants to know if its possible to merge concepts that are widely studied in Psychology and Buddhist pedagogy that is highly developed such as compassion and altruism, can be merged with the competitive economic system. Is it possible for humanitarian values and prosocial motivation to be applied to economic scholarship?

"People think that their enjoyment of a product is based on the qualities of the product, but their experience of it is also very much based on the product's marketing," says Rangel.

"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. I'm not kidding."