Superfreakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

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[amazonsearch]Superfreakonomics[/amazonsearch]

 

Just finished reading this book.  The freakonomics saga continues through street prostitutes, suicide bombers, stories of apathy, global cooling/warming, monkeys with silver discs, drunk walkers, Axyxxi etc etc. 

 

I cracked up when I read that Capuchin monkeys in an experiment about money used it to pay for sex.

 

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/001105.html

http://www.q-group.org/archives_folder/pdf/spring2008/ChenBehavioralBiases.pdf

 

It made me wonder - if the experiment had progressed, would monkeys have formed an ETF of silver and traded it to the sky or would have eventually replaced leaf (paper equivalent) money for silver?