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Publisher's summary
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 today's most pressing concerns, answering a diverse range of daring questions, such as:
- Why are seat belts deadly?
- Why do celebrity endorsements sell products?
- Why are failed executives paid so much?
- Who should bear the cost of oil spills?
- Do government deficits matter?
- How is workplace safety bad for workers?
- What's wrong with the local foods movement?
- Which rich people can't be taxed?
- Why is rising unemployment sometimes good?
- Why do women pay more at the dry cleaner?
- Why is life full of disappointments?
Whether these are nagging questions you've always had, or ones you never even thought to ask, this new edition of The Armchair Economist turns the eternal ideas of economic theory into concrete answers that you can use to navigate the challenges of contemporary life.
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang...the truth about real-estate agents...the secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but be careful
- By Shackleton on 07-03-08
By: Steven D. Levitt, and others
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Capitalism and Freedom, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
- By: Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman, Grover Gardner - prologue
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 978
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 861
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 855
How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy - one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poor execution of a great book.
- By Mike S. on 01-25-18
By: Milton Friedman, and others
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Applied Economics
- Thinking Beyond Stage One: Second Edition
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
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Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations. The book is based on an international view of economics, includes examples from around the world, and shows how certain incentives and constraints produce similar outcomes among disparate peoples and cultures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Look at the long term...it's important!
- By Eunice on 07-20-09
By: Thomas Sowell
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The Winner's Curse
- Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
- By: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers - they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse"; why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day; why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another; and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great book not a great audiobook
- By Jenni on 03-11-21
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Principles of Economics
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Principles of Economics is a university-level textbook in economics that offers a clear and concise exploration of the most important economic concepts. This book is unapologetically Austrian in its approach. It tackles major economic concepts and topics independently, but in a logical sequence aimed at delivering the listener an understanding of economics at an individual and societal level, and the widespread implications of economics as a topic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was already a fan of the Austrian school
- By PublicName on 10-13-23
By: Saifedean Ammous
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Thinking Strategically
- The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
- By: Avinash K. Dixit
- Narrated by: Mark Delgado
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 141
The international best seller - don't compete without it! A major best seller in Japan, Financial Times top-ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club best seller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy-making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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better read
- By BB on 01-02-14
By: Avinash K. Dixit
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- By: Richard H. Thaler
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,414
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,505
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,462
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone 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, and our world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book if it's your first about Behav. Econ
- By Jay Friedman on 09-30-15
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Predictably Irrational
- The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- By: Dan Ariely
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,504
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,798
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,769
In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good lessons, mediocre science?
- By William Stanger on 02-24-09
By: Dan Ariely
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Noise
- A Flaw in Human Judgment
- By: Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,387
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,128
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,117
From the best-selling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Z28 on 05-31-21
By: Daniel Kahneman, and others
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70,413
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60,964
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60,599
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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- Marc
- 04-03-19
Should have liked it
I wanted to like it much more than I did. And I should have liked it much more than I did. I have read almost every popular-economics book out there, but this one was unfortunately one of my least favourites. Sometimes the author is just kind of dumb about the reasons behind some things. He seems to forget that people are humans, to the strong detriment of his reasoning. I think also the book lacks enough narrative. As it is it is quite dry.
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- A. Yoshida
- 01-17-20
More for Someone Interested in Studying Economics
The author should have left out the economic analysis of law and legal disputes (how the economy is better or worse off depending on which party wins), his economic musings that have no answers, and his views on environmentalism (similar to his views on religion - don't impose on those who don't believe). This book is probably more interesting for people who want study economics rather than the general public.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-05-21
Still relevant today.
Wonderful starting place for economics or logic. I found it easy to follow and have recommended to others.
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- Ericarseneau
- 11-08-19
Had high hopes
It starts off quite good and what was described was exactly what I was looking for. However, I can't really put my finger on it, but the author is very conceited and does not really take the time to explain the why something is true. He has some valid points, however most of his statements are presented without enough support to make you believe them. He does not spend any time helping you understand why certain logic statements he makes are true. Did I say he is quite conceited, just did not come off as very likable :(
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