Steven E. Landsburg

Can You Outsmart an Economist? (eBook, ePUB)

100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This entertaining way to learn economics "will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers" (Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic). Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist 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! "Ingenious…enables you to think like an economist without incurring a Keynesian headache or a huge student loan." -George Gilder, author of Life After Google "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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781328489821
• Artikelnr.: 54148429

Autorenporträt

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of More Sex Is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, and the hugely popularThe Armchair Economist, among others. He has written for Forbes, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives in Pittsford, NY.