The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781471101311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str.

Steven E. Landsburg

Opis

Why does popcorn cost so much at the movies? When does it make sense not to recycle? Steven Landsburg demystifies the economics of everyday behaviour in these witty and accessible essays. He examines everything from taxes, unemployment and illiteracy to the mating game, the death penalty and environmentalism. Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.

O autorze

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy.