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The armchair economist economics and everyday life

Seat belts cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This widely documented fact comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned, perhaps better than most, to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives in complicated ways. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how economic thinking illuminates the entire range of human behavior. But instead of focusing on the workings of financial markets, international trade, and other topics distant from the experience of most readers, Landsburg mines the details of daily life to reveal what the laws of economics tell us about ourselves.

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  • "Seat belts cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This widely documented fact comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned, perhaps better than most, to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives in complicated ways. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how economic thinking illuminates the entire range of human behavior. But instead of focusing on the workings of financial markets, international trade, and other topics distant from the experience of most readers, Landsburg mines the details of daily life to reveal what the laws of economics tell us about ourselves."@en
  • ""Seat belts cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This widely documented fact comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned, perhaps better than most, to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives in complicated ways. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how economic thinking illuminates the entire range of human behavior. But instead of focusing on the workings of financial markets, international trade, and other topics distant from the experience of most readers, Landsburg mines the details of daily life to reveal what the laws of economics tell us about ourselves."--Publisher."@en

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  • "The armchair economist economics and everyday life"@en
  • "The armchair economist economics and everyday life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and everyday life revised and updated for the 21st century"@en
  • "L'economista in pantofole : teoria economica e vita quotidiana"@it
  • "L'economista in pantofole : teoria economica e vita quotidiana"
  • "The Armchair Economist : Economics and Everyday Life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and everyday life, revised and updated for the 21st century"@en
  • "The Armchair Economist- Economics & Everyday Life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and every day life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and everyday life : revised and updated for the 21st century"@en
  • "The armchair economist : economics for everyday life"@en
  • "The armchair economist : economics for everyday life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and everyday life"
  • "The armchair economist : economics and everyday life"@en
  • "The Armchair economist : economics and everyday life"

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