Books : Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.019
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: August 02, 2007
Publishing house: Dutton Adult
Release Date: August 02, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 1113010
Studio: Dutton Adult
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Freakonomics revealed much about our society. Now, one of America’s most respected economists reveals how individuals can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily life—at home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual is the key to successful and satisfactory daily interactions—from getting the kids to do the dishes to having a productive business meeting, attracting a mate to finding a good guide in a foreign country. Discovering your inner economist, Cowen suggests, can lead to a happier, more satisfying life. What better carrot could you ask for?
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The author has a few good suggestions about selecting restaurants. The rest of this book is a complete waste of time. The author's primary intention seems to be showing the world what a man of the world he thinks he is, e.g. titles of books he has read; names of countries has visited; names of musicians he knows about; how many different types of foods he has tasted. There is list after list of items. It was nauseating to read.
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This book reminds me of Stephen Hawking's "A brief History of time." Great authors can always make abstruse stuff understandable to even illiterate.
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It's a fast and easy read! The info is definitely worth the cost of time and money in other words: high ROI!
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The book is good, well-written and interesting. Specially good is the analyze about the logics of museums and the construction of musical tastes. The lesson of the author is "economic thougth does not build happiness". It seems to me tha way of thinking economic thought is refreshing.
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Cowen is an econ prof. and I am an econ student/junky. I read a lot of econ related books, and this has really very few insights,nothing spectacular. There are some interesting points however, mostly on how to read books.
1. Read several at once and pick one(It should not be DYIE)
2. If you do not follow tip one - Skip pages and go back to read the later(or don't)
thats my opinion quickly stated.
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