Ruchir Agarwal: Chimpanzee Politics and Climate Change by IMF Podcasts published on 2021-08-31T15:43:26Z The hunter-gatherer lifestyle of early human communities looks a lot like that of chimpanzees, and when it comes to cooperation- humans and chimps still have much in common. Perhaps that's not surprising given humans share over 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees. But in a recent article in Finance and Development, economist Ruchir Agarwal argues the 2% difference in our genetic makeup explains the level of sophistication of human cooperation and makes us capable of sharing risks to solve global issues like climate change. In this podcast, Agarwal says if economists are in the business of designing economic institutions and financial markets for humans, they best take into account what kind of animal we are. Transcript at: https://bit.ly/3Bk80C0 Read the Article at IMF.org/fandd