>> thank you. >> thank you. great being here. [applause] >> book tv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news, behind-the-scenes pictures and video author information and to talk directly with authors during live programs. facebook .com/book tv. >> i kept asking this question what is it about money that makes this act so irrationally. i started writing and researching and got into the field of brain science. what is happening in my you think of money? when i mentioned the word money they had done brain scans of people i am cocaine and compare them to people making money and find they are virtually identical.

taking brain scans been looking at pictures of naked women dead bodies, and money. get the most activation was money. i found this fascinating. my career on wall street to me all around the exploring this idea. >> it is such a big topic. were you influenced by any thoughts? what was your only reading? >> again, the question, why is national i started with the work of the economist he won the nobel prize in economics, the guy that comes up with the idea.

for example, how many of the lottery? my dad plays the lottery every week. i asked him why. said, i see it on the news. a person standing their with a check. maybe i could win. one time i matched three or four numbers and down $400. i said there is almost zero chance you can when. but irrational activity, the more likely you can things start to inflate the probability of it actually happening. celebrities are more likely to divorce? you might say yes but is because you see it more often than is. irrational decisions. looking at the book when

the brain come from? evolutionary economist. you know, this book is about the multiplicity of money. public money through different perspectives. the other books the other books i looked at what the new testament; for religious books. and i started with the economist and ended up with the spiritual masters. >> what does jesus think about money? 's. >> i was in india. my job takes me around the world. i went i went to mother teresa's home for the dying invest where people go really did i said in place. i walked in many lepers. and this man quivering. seated among lepers was a

teenager, maybe 16 or 17 years old i you make jack. his presence was very jarring to me. i i would often said, why are you hear? and i was that a job is not volunteering in india, and he said, i am here because of the gospel teaches. what is the gospel teach? even though everyone here is their riches. when you go back and look at the gospel 80% of 80 percent of what jesus said in the book of matthew they are about money and wealth. in the new testament sermon on the mount layout treasures in heaven but not

on earth. he goes on to say something curious. he said, essentially the body has an eye and if you are can you shall not see and that he goes on to talk about money again. you talking about the emergence say that jesus is talking about greed because greed is something you seeing yourself. you see it in other people. searching this book the pastor said i have been hearing confessionals were 25 years but no one has ever come up to me and said father please forgive me i have to read. why is that? really something we see in other people, not ourselves. what jesus says is less is more.

we are driven by economic logic. but across all the favors there is a more spiritual logic less is more. and how we use money according to the different faiths can determine the fate of our souls very strict rules about what to do and how to spend money. >> you can watch this and other programs online at c-span.org. each year the commandant of the coast guard assembles a list of books recommends for servicemen and women. the u.s. constitution starts off the list. his principles are the very reason coast guard men and women so the serve. next the survival of liberty