The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything - Hardcover

Harford, Tim

 
9780316027564: The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316027561 ISBN 13: 9780316027564
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, whether we should build more prisons, and whether a city like New Orleans can recover from disaster. THE LOGIC OF LIFE introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep. The book starts with the most intimate decisions - to have sex, to take drugs, to lead an honest life - then zooms out to discuss the logic of the family, of neighbourhoods, large corporations, cities themselves. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was economics, and it will help you see the world in a new way.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Harford writes the 'Dear Economist' column for the FT Saturday magazine. An award winning public speaker, Tim has been an economist for a major oil company and an economics tutor at Oxford University.

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Verlag
Little, Brown & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316027561
ISBN 13 
9780316027564
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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