Author: Wilhelm BrandesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
On the limitations of armchair economics
Author: Wilhelm BrandesThe Armchair Economist
Author: Steven E. LandsburgPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451651732
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- What life is all about -- The power of incentives : how seat belts kill -- Rational riddles : why u2 concerts sell out -- Truth or consequences : how to split a check or choose a movie -- The indi_erence principle : who cares if the air is clean? -- The computer game of life : learning what it's all about -- Good and evil -- Telling right from wrong : the pitfalls of democracy -- Why taxes are bad : the logic of e_ciency -- Why prices are good : smith versus darwin -- Of medicine and candy, trains and sparks : economics in the courtroom -- How to read the news -- Choosing sides in the drug war : how the atlantic monthly got it wrong -- The mythology of deficits -- The idiot file : spurious wisdom from the internet -- How statistics lie : unemployment can be good for you -- The policy vice : do we need more illiterates? -- Some modest proposals : the end of bipartisanship -- How markets work -- Why popcorn costs more at the movies, and why the obvious answer is wrong -- Courtship and collusion : the mating game -- Cursed winners and glum losers : why life is full of disappointments -- Random walks and stock market prices : a primer for investors -- Ideas of interest : armchair forecasting -- The iowa car crop -- The pitfalls of science -- Was einstein credible? : the economics of the scientificc method -- New improved football how economists go wrong -- The pitfalls of religion -- Why i am not an environmentalist: the science of economics versus the religion -- Of ecology -- Appendix.
The Armchair Economist
Author: Steven E. LandsburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Big Questions
Author: Steven E. LandsburgPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847399290
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
What's wrong with stealing? What's the best way to blood test a pot-bellied pig? Should we tolerate intolerance? In the wake of his enormously popular books, The Armchair Economistand More Sex is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from maths, economics and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: Where does knowledge come from? What's the difference between right and wrong? Do our beliefs matter? Is it possible to know everything? Provocative, utterly entertaining and always surprising, The Big Questions challenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.
World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts
Author: Armchair Mist
Author: Steven E. LandsburgPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613915311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Landsburg (economics, Univ. of Rochester) demonstrates the economist's way of thinking about everyday occurrences. The result is a compilation of questions ranging from why popcorn costs so much at movie theaters and why rock concerts sell out, to why laws against polygamy are detrimental to women. Many of the issues raised are controversial and even somewhat humorous, but they are clearly explained only from an economic perspective as opposed to other dynamics of human behavior. There are also clear explanations of the misconceptions about unemployment rates, measures of inflation, and interest rates. The book is not a textbook but shows how one economist solves puzzling questions that occur in daily living.
The Limitations of Marginal Utility (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists)
Author: Thorstein VeblenPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473399114
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Originally published in 1909, this is a work by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist. It is an article written for the Journal of Political Economy publication outlining some of his theories on economics. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author with the aim of placing it in the context of his other writings and achievements. The following passage is an extract from the article: 'The limitations of the marginal-utility economics are sharp and characteristic. It is from first to last a doctrine of value, and in point of form and method it is a theory of valuation. The whole system, therefore, lies within the theoretical field of distribution, and it has but a secondary bearing on any other economic phenomena than those of distribution -- the term being taken in its accepted sense of pecuniary distribution, or distribution in point of ownership.'
Economics Rules
Author: Dani RodrikPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198736894
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A leading economist trains a lens on his own discipline to uncover when it fails and when it works.
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