The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford
from Random House

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Human are both logic and irational creature
  The principle of the book is not very alien that human have logical and irrational qualities but the to use economics principle to explain many social phenomena is indeed intriguing

• Disappointing.....a one trick pony
  Tim Harford's "Logic Of Life" has only one point to make, that is, every decision one makes in everyday life is an economically rational one, whether one knows it or not. Imagine the subconscious mind working overtime making those minute calculations without the conscious mind knowing about it.
  To illustrate the point, Harford opens with a titillating expose on the rising incidence of teenage oral sex in modern life before expanding his scope to include gambling, racism, crime, corporate remuneration,... more info

• At best a badly edited book
  I liked Tim Hartford's earlier work - The Undercover Economist very much. I have taken a few graduate courses in Economics and loved the way the book refreshed and even gave new concepts to me. Thus, I picked up The Logic of Life with a lot of expectations. These expectations were badly dashed.
  My big problem with this book is that Hartford lacks rigor. In a popular book I wouldn't expect the rigor of an academic article, but when an author draws conclusions that are wider ranging than warranted or if... more info

• Best of the current crop of pop-economic books
  I've read a lot of books lately on human behavior, the economics of daily life, and game theory.
  Although "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is the most famous recent book of pop economics (and I did quite enjoy it), I think the best of the current lot is this one: "The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World" by Tim Harford, a columnist for The Financial Times and Slate.
  Harford takes on fascinating topics -- starting with the increase in the number of... more info

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