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Armchair Economist : Economics and Everyday Life by Steven Landsburg and Steven E. Landsburg (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFree Press
ISBN-100029177766
ISBN-139780029177761
eBay Product ID (ePID)18721
Product Key Features
Book TitleArmchair Economist : Economics and Everyday Life
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Economics / General
Publication Year1995
GenreBusiness & Economics
AuthorSteven Landsburg, Steven E. Landsburg
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.7 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-004008
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal306.3
SynopsisMost people associate economics with larg-scale wonders like the stock-market, big business, and international trade. Most people also assume that economists are dismally technical. Stephen Landsburg attempts to prove them wrong. He shows how the laws of economics can reveal themselves in surprising and humorous ways. He demonstrates that, no matter what the endeavour, people respond to incentives in understandable, if not always predictable ways., Witty economists are about as easy to find as anorexic mezzo-sopranos, natty mujahedeen, and cheerful Philadelphians. But Steven E. Landsburg...is one economist who fits the bill. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet, the University of Rochester professor valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy.-- Joe Queenan, The Wall Street JournalThe Armchair Economistis a wonderful little book, written by someone for whom English is a first (and beloved) language, and it contains not a single graph or equation...Landsburg presents fascinating concepts in a form easily accessible to noneconomists.-- Erik M. Jensen, The Cleveland Plain Dealer...enormous fun from its opening page...Landsburg has done something extraordinary: He has expounded basic economic principles with wit and verve.-- Dan Seligman, Fortune
