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Logic of Life The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

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ISBN-10: 0812977874

ISBN-13: 9780812977875

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tim Harford

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Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questionsand you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist. But Tim Harford, award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, likes to spring surprises. In this deftly reasoned book, Harford argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.99" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.396
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.