November 16, 2012

Bridging the Fiscal Cliff Through Brain Science

David Rock, Huffington Post


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History is often made when adversaries with well-established biases overcome expectations to find common ground: Ronald Reagan negotiating arms reduction with Mikhail Gorbachev, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin signing a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, or Saudis joining the first Iraq War coalition as staunch allies.

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TAGGED: neuroscience, Politics, debt, fiscal cliff, bipartisan solution

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