The Logic of Life

英国著名经济学家,曾以<卧底经济学>一书在中国走红.

出版者:Little, Brown

作者:Tim Harford

页数:288

出版时间:2008-01-25

价格:£ 21.46

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780316027564

图书标签:经济学economics职场经济

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, whether we should build more prisons, and whether a city like New Orleans can recover from disaster. THE LOGIC OF LIFE introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep. The book starts with the most intimate decisions - to have sex, to take drugs, to lead an honest life - then zooms out to discuss the logic of the family, of neighbourhoods, large corporations, cities themselves. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was economics, and it will help you see the world in a new way.

读后感

这一册解释了一些不理性的行为，其实还是理性的行为。 翻译过来的意思，某些现象是有道理的。对一些现象的解释，我很佩服，之前从未如此深入的思考过，一些以前就知道了（如城市的待嫁的姑娘多）。 1。城市生活成本这么高，房价这么高，人还越来越多？因此，城市提供了思维的碰...  

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford ($25, Random House, 2008). Even if you found Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat a smidge, um, one-dimensional, there's something to be said for keeping it simple. The preco...  

说句实话，我对经济学家不是很感冒。 他们太自傲，总认为抽丝剥茧就能把世界理解得清清楚楚；他们也太冷酷，历史事件和俗世生活在他们看来无非是人个体在衡量所得所失后做出决定的后果。他们认为，所有人的所有选择都是在做交换：工作，就是用生命交换金钱的一种行为；婚姻，...  

书中的很多关于历史方面的很有意思,就好像英国的光荣革命,让人有恍然大悟之感.作者态度很严肃,比<卧底经济学>进步了.  

用户评价

周二在上海机场买的，是paperback，但豆瓣上没找到，用这个吧

文笔很好，但是sex和crime不是我的菜

2chapters ch1比较cool

2chapters ch1比较cool

周二在上海机场买的，是paperback，但豆瓣上没找到，用这个吧