Economics is no longer the "dismal science" dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English. Steve Landsburg was one of the first of the new breed, in his book The Armchair Economist and long-running "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine. Now he is back, and more provocative than ever. In More Sex is Safer Sex , Landsburg shows how the rational behavior of each one of us -- when combined together -- produces the often bizarre, seemingly irrational behavior of crowds. We all stand up at the ballpark, so none of us can see. We avoid casual sex, from fear of disease, and we thereby make sex more dangerous. Things really get interesting when Landsburg suggests ways to change the rules, and game the system. Why not charge juries if a convicted felon is exonerated? Why not have each member of Congress represent a national subset of voters, chosen alphabetically? Why not solve the ""overpopulation"" problem by having more children, who will help think of ways to improve our use of resources? More Sex is Safer Sex will make you laugh and argue -- and it will make you think about the world around you in new and unforgettable ways.
史蒂文·兰兹伯格为芝加哥大学经济学博士,现任罗彻斯特大学经济学教授。兰兹伯格在《Slate》网络杂志撰写的“每日经济学”专栏深受欢迎,他也应邀在《财富》、《福布斯》、《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》等刊物发表文章。著有《一个经济学家给女儿的忠告》、《价格理论与应用》,以及畅销书《生命中的经济游戏》。
我并不是说自己是封建礼教的卫道士,而是实在是逻辑有问题 如果一个人原先性保守,洁身自好,突然去外面乱搞了,确实是扩充了这个群体的基数,也使得一部分原先可能和得艾滋病的人乱搞的人和这个人搞了,使得这一部分人不患艾滋,但这首先就有一个逻辑漏洞,就是 那个得艾滋的...
评分我并不是说自己是封建礼教的卫道士,而是实在是逻辑有问题 如果一个人原先性保守,洁身自好,突然去外面乱搞了,确实是扩充了这个群体的基数,也使得一部分原先可能和得艾滋病的人乱搞的人和这个人搞了,使得这一部分人不患艾滋,但这首先就有一个逻辑漏洞,就是 那个得艾滋的...
评分《性越多越安全》往畅销的方向偏离得太多了。其他不说,光这个标题就得让人绕不少弯子。不过,如果领会了作者的意图,你将会明白,整本书几乎所有案例都是以宏观阐述为基调(不知道这是不是宏观经济学的概念),所谓的性越多越安全,并非针对个体,而是某个人群的行为对全社会...
评分为甚么我们总是一窝蜂去读畅销书?容我大段引述梁文道的解释,它至少不会比大部分畅销书更冗长: 「一本书不能有太多创见,以致于过度违背常识,才看几页就受不了。但是它却要显得有点智慧,将读者都明白甚至认同的道理用很聪明的方法包装一下,使得读者感到有那么一点...
评分我并不是说自己是封建礼教的卫道士,而是实在是逻辑有问题 如果一个人原先性保守,洁身自好,突然去外面乱搞了,确实是扩充了这个群体的基数,也使得一部分原先可能和得艾滋病的人乱搞的人和这个人搞了,使得这一部分人不患艾滋,但这首先就有一个逻辑漏洞,就是 那个得艾滋的...
just read some chapters I'm interested in.
评分just read some chapters I'm interested in.
评分well founded though incomplete~
评分just read some chapters I'm interested in.
评分just read some chapters I'm interested in.
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