Economy

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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner offer the longawaited paperback edition of Freakonomics, the runaway bestseller, including six Freakonomics columns from the New York Times Magazine and a Q & A with the authors.Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming poolWhat do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in commonHow much do parents reall...

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans?predictable, errorprone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth?and change the way we think about economics, ourselves...

Two prizewinning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our dayThe experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot on the gas pedal) in the runup to the great recession, squabbling about how to get out o...

The extensively revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg?s hugely popular book, The Armchair Economist??a delightful compendium of quotidian examples illustrating important economic and financial theories? (The Journal of Finance).In this revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg?s hugely popular book, he applies economic theory to tod...