具体描述
'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all.
作者简介
英国著名经济学家,曾以<卧底经济学>一书在中国走红.
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读后感
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 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。
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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
