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More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics Steven E. Landsburg

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics By Steven E. Landsburg

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg


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Now available in paperback the author of The Armchair Economist presents a series of stunning arguments that turn everyday life on its head.

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics Summary

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg

Steve Landsburg has been leading the pack of economists who are transforming their science from a drab meditation on graphs and charts into a fascinating window on human nature. Now he's back and more provocative than ever with surprises on virtually every page. In More Sex is Safer Sex, Professor Landsburg offers readers a series of stimulating discussions that all flow from one unsettling fact. Combining the rational decisions of each of us often produces an irrational result for all of us. Avoiding casual sex can actually encourage the spread of diseases. To solve population pressures, we need more people. In his tantalizing, entertaining narrative, Landsburg guides us through these shocking notions by the light of compelling logic and evidence and makes suggestions along the way: Why not charge juries if a convicted felon is exonerated? Why not let firemen keep the property they rescue? As entertaining as it is inflammatory, More Sex is Safer Sex, will make readers think about their decisions in unforgettable ways-and spark debate over much that we all take for granted.

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics Reviews

"Steve Landsburg proves once again that he is better than anyone else at making economics interesting to noneconomists. Landsburg is provocative and playful in his mission to demonstrate how an understanding of economics will change the way you live your daily life. I loved this book." -- Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics
"Long before the 'pop economists' there was Steven Landsburg, writing funny, jargon-free, shocking, and true essays on our material circumstances. But Landsburg knows something that other authors of bestsellers on the subject don't. He knows everything. Economics is not the study of money; it's the study of value. Everything is determined by our values. The science of everything is what economics is. And here, in More Sex, what the reader will find is -- everything." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"Steve Landsburg is one of my favorite economics writers, and his new book is no exception. While I don't always agree with him, he usually gets me thinking, and he always entertains." -- Greg Mankiw, former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and author of Principles of Economics

About Steven E. Landsburg

Steven E. Landsburg writes the popular "Everyday Economics" column in "Slate "magazine and has also written for "Forbes," "The Wall Street Journal," and other publications. He teaches in the department of economics at the University of Rochester.

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GOR004706411
9781416532224
1416532226
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom Of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster
2008-05-19
288
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