Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions–and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist. But award-winning journalist Tim Harford likes to spring surprises. In this deftly reasoned book, he argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of everyday insanity, hidden incentives are at work, and Harford shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely places.
英国著名经济学家,曾以<卧底经济学>一书在中国走红.
Tim Harford一再强调理性的分析社会问题,认为大部分看起来荒唐的事情背后都有理性的判断和科学的解释。比如在戒烟难的问题上,他解释说大脑中有一个相当动物性的部位,它会鼓励人做出能使自己马上获得愉悦的不理性选择。比如说马上点起香烟从而获得身体的愉悦而放弃吸烟有害健...
评分The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford ($25, Random House, 2008). Even if you found Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat a smidge, um, one-dimensional, there's something to be said for keeping it simple. The preco...
评分 评分 评分书中的很多关于历史方面的很有意思,就好像英国的光荣革命,让人有恍然大悟之感.作者态度很严肃,比<卧底经济学>进步了.
文笔很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文笔很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文笔很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文笔很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文笔很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
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