),Steven E. Landsburg is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations,Select the department you want to search in.Unable to add item to List. ,The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life [ebook] by Steven E. Landsburg (epub/mobi).Your email address will not be published. It pretends as if humans are machines and behavioral economics does not exist. The theories seems elegant and very logical, but the problem is the underlying assumptions are usually overlooked and the author really overlooks in the book. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why … Maybe he doesn't want to talk about that since it's not helpful to substantiate his false arguments. The armchair economist Steven E. Landsburg. : 100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain,Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S. There are very good essays, as very bad ones. He is the author of.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Why are executives’ salaries so high? Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? Most economists and academics are so pretentious but he was so willing to answer my questions and discuss policy issues.Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2015.Easy to read, interesting, a bit dated in some of its references but not bad.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2011.If you're not an economist, then this book has plenty of examples of how economic thinking contradicts conventional wisdom. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Armchair Economist (revised and updated May 2012): Economics & Everyday Life. We appreciate your feedback.You submitted the following rating and review. If you know anything about economics, then you might be bored reading this book.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2018.A refreshing foray into the "dismal science " which doesn't shy away from the sometimes counterintuitive and controversial conclusions of economic logic. I was able to take in a lot of new knowledge from this book, and it really provides excellent descriptions and examples to help you understand concepts and it even teaches you how to apply them to different areas of life. One reason, opines Landsburg, is that stockholders expect managers to take risks, and well-heeled executives are more likely to do so. In this revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg’s hugely popular book, he applies economic theory to today’s most pressing concerns, answering a diverse range of daring questions, such as:Why do celebrity endorsements sell products?What’s wrong with the local foods movement?Why is rising unemployment sometimes good?Why do women pay more at the dry cleaner?Whether these are nagging questions you’ve always had, or ones you never even thought to ask, this new edition of The Armchair Economist turns the eternal ideas of economic theory into concrete answers that you can use to navigate the challenges of contemporary life.Landsburg demystifies the economics of everyday behavior in these diverting if not always persuasive essays. The Armchair Economist was a very revealing and incredibly interesting book on how economics affects our daily lives. I found his example that cars can be made in Michigan or grown in Idaho very clear and well described, and useful in these protectionist times. Now that would be "efficiency".Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014.I'm a college student and usually do not enjoy the bland textbooks teachers assign. 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. Please try again.You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. You need a Australia address to shop on our Australia store. I bought this book for my microeconomics class, but I really wanted to return this book if not the class.maybe the smartest "for dummies" style book ever,Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2019.Steven Landsburg is a renowned economist, and this book makes it clear why, as he clearly, cleanly, and ably explains some fairly in-depth economic theories and principles without condescension. The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life [ebook] by Steven E. Landsburg (epub/mobi) ebook4expert. 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