基本信息出版社：Abacus
页码：288 页
出版日期：2009年03月
ISBN：0349120412
条形码：9780349120416
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：生活逻辑

内容简介 'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all.
作者简介 Tim Harford writes the 'Dear Economist' column for the FT Saturday magazine. An award winning public speaker, Tim has been an economist for a major oil company and an economics tutor at Oxford University.
媒体推荐 'The chapter "Why is Your Boss Overpaid?" is in itself worth the price of this book' - Sunday Telegraph 'This is no minor thesis ... If you loved [The Tipping Point and Freakonomics] you'll love this' - Financial Times
编辑推荐 Review
'The chapter "Why is Your Boss Overpaid?" is in itself worth the price of this book' - Sunday Telegraph 'This is no minor thesis ... If you loved [The Tipping Point and Freakonomics] you'll love this' - Financial Times

FINANCIAL TIMES
`This is no minor thesis . . . If you loved [The Tipping Point and Freakonomics] you'll love this' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

METRO
`Always thought-provoking'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

SUNDAY TIMES
`An enjoyable read . . . Harford presents complex arguments with unfailing clarity and wit'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

MANAGEMENT TODAY
`An excellent debunker of myths and misunderstandings' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

THE TIMES
`In Harford's hand, the dismal science of economics becomes cool'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Metro
Economics, as Tim Harford show so brilliantly... is not the dull topic of popular misconception. Harford is always thought-provoking.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.