Can You Outsmart an Economist?

Name: Can You Outsmart an Economist?
Brand: Houghton Mifflin
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"Will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers." -- Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic
"This ingenious gallop through the mind of Steven Landsburg enables you to think like an economist without incurring a Keynesian headache or a huge student loan. You may even end up 'smarter than Google.' But you will not readily put down this exhilarating adventure in ideas." -- George Gilder, author of Knowledge and Power and Life After Google
Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional economics primer, he brings together over one hundred puzzles and brain teasers that illustrate the subject's key concepts and pitfalls. From warm-up exercises to get your brain working, to logic and probability problems, to puzzles covering more complex topics like inferences, strategy, and irrationality, Can You Outsmart an Economist? will show you how to do just that by expanding the way you think about decision making and problem solving. Let the games begin!
"Entertaining as well as edifying. Read it, expand your mind, and have fun!"-- N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 306
Release Date:: 2018-09-25
Publication Date:: 2018-09-01
Publisher:: Houghton Mifflin
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1328489868
ISBN13:: 9781328489869
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 388 g
Height:: 13.3 cm
Width:: 20.3 cm
Thickness:: 1.9 cm

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