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发表于2024-10-05
The Economic Naturalist pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
The fascinating and playful guide to how economics explains the simple but profound ideas that govern our world.
Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando?
For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which they do everywhere, all the time.
Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons.
The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost benefit principle, the "no cash left on the table" principle, and the law of one price. There is no more delightful and painless way of learning these fundamental principles.
"Smart, snappy and delightful. Bob Frank is one of America's best writers on economics." -- Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, and author of In Praise of Commercial Culture and What Price Fame?
"Fascinating, mind-expanding, and lots of fun." -- Steven Pinker, Harvard University, and author of The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and The Stuff of Thought
Robert H. Frank is a professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. His "Economic Scene" column appears monthly in The New York Times. He is the author of Choosing the Right Pond, The Winner-Take-All Society, and Luxury Fever, among others. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
挺有意思的视角
评分absolutely love it. Would recommend my son or daughter to read it in the future
评分有意思的问答书,以经济学的视角来解读周遭的世界
评分from 3/29/2016 to 4/11/2016 问题是有趣的问题,但回答里对经济学概念的融汇和解释常常不到位
评分比较不喜欢这些经济学快餐书。适合作为初级微观的课外读物
这本书和《苹果桔子经济学》最大的不同是,它里面所用的理论,都是瞎猜的,全没有研究证明。 瞎猜可能猜错,也可能猜对,包括一些瞎猜非常有道理,也非常著名,比如“为什么牛奶盒子是方形,软饮料盒子是圆柱形”。但是,读者必须了解到,这些是瞎猜! 看到封面,当然以为是《...
评分◎乃鼎齋無機客 截至現在,美國康奈爾大學的教授Robert Frank在今年已經出版了兩本書,一本《Richistan:A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich》(《巨富国度:走进全美暴发户和新富阶层的富貴生活》),披露“美国百万富翁数目在过去1...
评分我这辈子最不会做的事情就是跟钱打交道(至少直到现在为止),所以让我读一本经济学书籍,实际上我是拒绝的,今年读过《冲突的战略》(讲博弈论的),结果剩了三分之二宣告失败,就连读过的三分之一都完全处在云里雾里。 偶然之间去朋友的书店,看到畅销书里排名前十的这本《...
评分这本书和《苹果桔子经济学》最大的不同是,它里面所用的理论,都是瞎猜的,全没有研究证明。 瞎猜可能猜错,也可能猜对,包括一些瞎猜非常有道理,也非常著名,比如“为什么牛奶盒子是方形,软饮料盒子是圆柱形”。但是,读者必须了解到,这些是瞎猜! 看到封面,当然以为是《...
评分前些天和一位朋友被雨困进落成不久的某购物广场,那里劳力士、卡迪亚等等大牌荟萃独缺超市,买不到伞,于是两个穷学生不得不硬着头皮从一楼window shopping到四楼,再从四楼逛到一楼,借以打发时间。一番东张西望之后,我发现一个有趣的现象:KFC位于购物广场一楼临近街边...
The Economic Naturalist pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024