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The Armchair Economist : Economics and Everyday Life

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[ 책소개 ]

현대사회를 사는 사람들이라면 모두 알게 모르게 경제활동을 하고 있다. 그러나 실상 우리는 그만큼 우리의 일상생활에 녹아있는 경제에 대해 잘 알지 못하는 경우가 많다. 저자인 Steven E. Landsburg는 이 책에서 우리의 삶에 작용하는 경제법칙에 대해 설명하고 있다. 우리 주위, 그리고 사회 전반과 관련하고 있는 경제 이론을 파악할 수 있도록 도와주는 책.

[ 목차 ]

I. What Life Is All About
II. Good and Evil
III. How to Read the News
IV. How Markets Work
V. The Pitfalls of Science
VI. The Pitfalls of Religion

[ 미디어 리뷰 ]


Witty economists are about as easy to find as anorexic mezzo-sopranos, natty mujahedeen, and cheerful Philadelphians. But Steven E. Landsburg...is one economist who fits the bill. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet, the University of Rochester professor valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy.
--- Joe Queenan, The Wall Street Journal

The Armchair Economist is a wonderful little book, written by someone for whom English is a first (and beloved) language, and it contains not a single graph or equation...Landsburg presents fascinating concepts in a form easily accessible to noneconomists.
--- Erik M. Jensen, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

...enormous fun from its opening page...Landsburg has done something extraordinary: He has expounded basic economic principles with wit and verve.
--- Dan Seligman, Fortune