Book: "The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good"

New book: "The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good". A brain scientist’s look at the neurobiology of pleasure - and how pleasures can become addictions. Eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/44bLM.

The Great Stagnation (Book)

How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation, the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now — at last — a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat. (...). Know more at http://goo.gl/ux2SW.