In this revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg’s hugely popular book, he applies economic theory to today’s most pressing concerns, answering a diverse range of daring questions, such as:
- Why are seat belts deadly?
- Why do celebrity endorsements sell products?
- Why are failed executives paid so much?
- Who should bear the cost of oil spills?
- Do government deficits matter?
- How is workplace safety bad for workers?
- What’s wrong with the local foods movement?
- Which rich people can’t be taxed?
- Why is rising unemployment sometimes good?
- Why do women pay more at the dry cleaner?
- Why is life full of disappointments?
Whether these are nagging questions you’ve always had, or ones you never even thought to ask, this new edition of The Armchair Economist turns the eternal ideas of economic theory into concrete answers that you can use to navigate the challenges of contemporary life.
Landsburg demystifies the economics of everyday behavior in these diverting if not always persuasive essays. Why don’t promoters of sell-out rock concerts raise the advance ticket price? Because, suggests the author, promoters want the good will of teenage audiences who will buy lots of rock paraphernalia. Why are executives’ salaries so high? One reason, opines Landsburg, is that stockholders expect managers to take risks, and well-heeled executives are more likely to do so. Associate professor of economics at the University of Rochester in New York, Landsburg applies his counter-intuitive analyses, with mixed results, to everything from taxes, auctions, baseball and the high price of movie theater popcorn to government inefficiency, the death penalty, environmentalism (which he attacks as a dogmatic, coercive ideology) and NAFTA. ~ Publisher Weekly
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