The Logic of Life
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The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions-and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist. But award-winning journalist Tim Harford likes to spring surprises. In this deftly reasoned book, he argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of everyday insanity, hidden incentives are at work, and Harford shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely places.Tim Harford is the Financial Times' Undercover Economist and Dear Economist writer. Esquire, Forbes, New York magazine, Wired, TheWashington Post, and TheNew York Times have all published his work. The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life are two of his previous books. Harford is a visiting fellow at London's Cass Management School and hosts the popular BBC radio show More or Less. He won the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006 and the Royal Statistical Society Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2010.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812977875 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812977874 |
| Title | The Logic of Life |
| Author | Tim Harford |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2009-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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