The Armchair Economist
Economics & Everyday Life
$34.58
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2012
Summary
Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives.
In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The ‘obvious’ answ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471101311 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1471101312 |
| Author: | Steven E. Landsburg |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | Re-issue |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 197mm x 130mm |
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“This new edition of “The Armchair Economist” is a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet. Landsburg valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy.” - Joe Queenan
About The Author
Steven E. Landsburg
Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy.
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