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.
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...
評分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...
評分这一册解释了一些不理性的行为,其实还是理性的行为。 翻译过来的意思,某些现象是有道理的。对一些现象的解释,我很佩服,之前从未如此深入的思考过,一些以前就知道了(如城市的待嫁的姑娘多)。 1。城市生活成本这么高,房价这么高,人还越来越多?因此,城市提供了思维的碰...
評分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...
評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.
文筆很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文筆很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文筆很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文筆很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
评分文筆很好,但是sex和crime不是我的菜
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