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Life is logical, it's rational to be lazy
Tim Harford simply rocks. One of my three choices for best book I read last year was his Undercover Economist. He's currently on a major tour plugging his follow-up, The Logic Of Life. Which includes appearing on The Colbert Report:
I keep meaning to write it up, I've been promising a few people a post on markets and why they're important for ages, just haven't actually done it. You'd be better of reading his book anyway. If you want a more sane but long reason, he's on Authors@Google as well:
Logic of Life is heading rapidly up my wants list, paperback is out in a week or so, yay!
I keep meaning to write it up, I've been promising a few people a post on markets and why they're important for ages, just haven't actually done it. You'd be better of reading his book anyway. If you want a more sane but long reason, he's on Authors@Google as well:
Logic of Life is heading rapidly up my wants list, paperback is out in a week or so, yay!
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Small world strikes again!
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Or are you refering to free or 'mostly free' markets?
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Why economics matters or similar would be part of the post title, although it might end up at LDV, in which case it'd need to mention liberalism in the title.
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Freakonics is a bit more interesting in terms of cool, I guess. So I'll have to buy a copy.
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Logic is from what I can see more in the Freakonomics vein, it has stuff like why people do/don't marry depending on local circumstances, why women are more likely to want to go to university/move to the city, etc.
But like I said, not read that yet. I'll get Freakonoics soon, it's not been bought simply because it's not been bought, it'll happen.
I like daft examples and parallels when explaining stuff-Economist opens with a large section on coffee shops and Rents, effectively using Ricardo to explain the cost of coffee in Waterloo station.
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