Discover Your Inner Economist
Book description
Read Tyler Cowen's posts on the Penguin Blog.
In Discover Your Inner Economist one of America’s most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to be relevant.
Like no other economist,…
Why read it?
1 author picked Discover Your Inner Economist as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
So many people miss the fact that economics is a social science; it is about us as people, and I love this book because it does not forget that, indeed, it reminds me that everyone is an amateur practicing economist.
I like this book because it applies economics to every day and not-so-everyday situations and explains how people can use economic ideas to practically make their lives better. It is one of the few books I have read that has changed a common activity I do: what I order at a restaurant.
From Brian's list on Economics books that will not bore you like the students in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
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