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What does all this mean for public policy? Mr Brooks complains that policies too frequently rely on an overly simplistic, rationalist view of human nature. That may be true, but all too many daft policies rely on the collective reluctance of the voters to leave marshmallows uneaten on the table. More to the point, how can a country curb crime, create true equality and reduce the social and economic costs of bad decisions? Education systems exist mainly to build the rational mind, and yet the decisions that are most important in making people happy are the ones in which reason plays little or no part: the development of friendships and the choice of a spouse. Public policy has largely ignored this.
So Mr Brooks has done well to draw such vivid attention to the wide implications of the accumulated research on the mind and the triggers of human behaviour. But more books, preferably without Harold and Erica, remain to be written about the way societies should respond to what we now know.

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public policy 공공정책. frequently 頻繁(빈번)하게, 자주.
overly 지나치게. rationalist 이성주의자. daft 미친, 얼간이 같은.
collective 집단적인. reluctance 저항, 내키지 않음, 싫음.
the collective reluctance of the voters to leave marshmallows uneaten on the table
〈유권자들이 식탁의 과자를 먹지 않고 그대로 두기를 싫어하는 것: 당장의 만족을 위해 마음에 들지는 않지만 실제로는 유익할 수 있는 정책을 유권자들이 싫어하는 것〉
More to the point 보다 더 적절히 말하자면.
curb 억제하다, 구속하다, 재갈을 물리다. reduce 감소시키다.
rational mind 합리적 정신. spouse 배우자. vivid 분명한, 생생한.
implications 암시, 含意(함의). accumulated research 축적된 연구.
triggers 誘因(유인), 동기, 방아쇠. preferably 되도록이면, 오히려.