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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毕竟是个很年轻的经济学作者，论点、论据、思路都谈不上明确有力，更不能达到深入浅出，姑且看之。 不过作者一直以经济学家自居的口吻，让我想起一句话：像经济学家一样思考。世界不是公平的，它仅仅是符合逻辑的，用理性分析的方法思考周围的一切，这也算是不差的看待世界的眼...
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...
评分太有趣了，前几天女同事们还在感叹怎么身边嫁不出去的姑娘总比光棍男生多？这下我知道了，还真玄妙呀！原来美国也是这样的，曼哈顿永远驻留一批待嫁女，她们的想法还真实际。有空看看这书吧，很好。真是答疑解惑。
评分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...
评分说句实话，我对经济学家不是很感冒。 他们太自傲，总认为抽丝剥茧就能把世界理解得清清楚楚；他们也太冷酷，历史事件和俗世生活在他们看来无非是人个体在衡量所得所失后做出决定的后果。他们认为，所有人的所有选择都是在做交换：工作，就是用生命交换金钱的一种行为；婚姻，...
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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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