What Is Something Worth?
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A seven-part analytical exploration of value across disciplines including economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Social Systems
What Is Something Worth? – Part 7: What Is a Good Life Worth Living?
·1544 words·8 mins
Synthesizes philosophical and psychological perspectives on well-being and the good life.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 6: The Politics of What Matters
·1340 words·7 mins
Connects value systems to political disagreement and ideological division.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 5: Feeling Is Knowing
·1393 words·7 mins
Examines the role of emotion as a mechanism for value perception.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 4: Where Do Your Values Come From?
·1314 words·7 mins
Investigates the origins and structure of human values across psychology and sociology.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 3: The Things You Won't Sell
·1292 words·7 mins
Analyzes protected values and why some things resist market logic.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 2: Your Brain Has a Spreadsheet
·1138 words·6 mins
Explores how the brain computes value using a common neural currency.
What Is Something Worth? – Part 1: The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing
·1213 words·6 mins
Examines the foundational paradox between price and value through economics and philosophy.
When Applause Becomes a Death Sentence: Human Behavior Under Terror
·329 words·2 mins
A psychological and historical analysis of how public endorsement of violence paradoxically accelerates the very terror it seems to justify, ultimately turning on those who applaud.