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Darwin Economy Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

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ISBN-10: 0691156689

ISBN-13: 9780691156682

Edition: 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Robert H. Frank

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Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank,New York Timeseconomics columnist and best-selling author ofThe Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's. And the consequences of this fact are profound. Indeed, the failure to recognize that we live in Darwin's world rather than Smith's is putting us all at risk by preventing us from seeing that competition alone will…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.506

Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a regular "Economic View" columnist for the "New York Times", and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have been translated into 22 languages, include "The Winner-Take-All Society" (with Philip Cook), "The Economic Naturalist", "Luxury Fever", "What Price the Moral High Ground?", and "Principles of Economics" (with Ben Bernanke).

Preface
Paralysis
Darwin's Wedge
No Cash on the Table
Starve the Beast-But Which One?
Putting the Positional Consumption Beast on a Diet
Perpetrators and Victims
Efficiency Rules
"Its Your Money…"
Success and Luck
The Great Trade-Off?
Taxing Harmful Activities
The Libertarians Objections Reconsidered
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index