Two experimental economists spent decades studying the way human beings evaluate risk and probability by doing gambling experiments on people all over the world. Then they repeated those experiments with elephants. What they learned might hold the key to some of humanity's most pressing issues - including climate change.
This week we read The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How We Risk It All by Don Ross and Glenn Harrison. My guest to discuss it is the London based senior writer at Bloomberg Kit Chellel, whose new book Lucky Devils: The True Story of Three Rebel Gamblers Who Beat the Odds and Changed the Game is out this week.
Read an excerpt of Lucky Devils at Bloomberg
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