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Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

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ISBN-10: 0199926514

ISBN-13: 9780199926510

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Tim Harford

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With over one million copies sold,The Undercover Economisthas been hailed worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part Economics 101 and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices.Newly updated to consider the banking crisis and economic turbulence of the last four years, the revised edition ofThe Undercover Economistis essential for anyone who has wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. Senior…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.40" wide x 6.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Tim Harford is the author of The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life, and Adapt. He writes two columns for the Financial Times, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Esquire, Parade, New York, and Wired. He lives with his family in Oxford.

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Who Pays for Your Coffee?
What Supermarkets Don't Want You to Know
Perfect Markets and the "World of Truth"
Crosstown Traffic
The Inside Story
Rotten Investments and Rotten Eggs
The Men Who Knew the Value of Nothing
Why Poor Countries Are Poor
Beer, Fries, and Globalization
How China Grew Rich
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index