The problem is to find a clever statistical technique to make all the necessary corrections. It is in no sense foolhardy to take more risks when you have a padded dashboard. Offer redeemable at Simon & Schuster's ebook fulfillment partner. If you are professionally involved in payment processing or have the information about high-risk merchant, contact us via [email protected] with the subject line "High-risk merchant" . Virtually all economists agreed that if the price were allowed to rise freely, people would buy less gasoline. One reason, opines Landsburg, is that stockholders expect managers to take risks, and well-heeled executives are more likely to do so. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! If your book is not available on E-ZBorrow, you can request it through ILLiad (ebooks unavailable). Economists tend to be harshly critical of these studies because they fail to account for other important facto... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But a driver with a seat belt and a padded dashboard faces less of a threat. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? You get where you are going faster, and you can often have a lot more fun along the way. Landsburg valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy." He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy. 2012. A great book and primer for those interested in getting into learning about economics, very accesable and engagingly written. That group will choose to drive more carefully when alerted to a baby's presence and will be glad to have that presence called to theft attention. When analyzing the costs and benefits of legalizing drugs, he admonishes that increased tax revenues from a heretofore untaxable criminal activity are a neutral item; transfer of wealth from individuals to government is never equivalent to the creation of new wealth and may even be a societal drain. Steven Landsburg is a renowned economist, and this book makes it clear why, as he clearly, cleanly, and ably explains some fairly in-depth economic theories and principles without condescension. Apparently this author inspired or knew Steve Levitt (Freakonomics). Market fundamentalism is a fanatical religion that resist facts such as the entrepreneurial participation of the United States government seeding technologies like the internet, airspace; it overlooks South Korea development, and China's. A case of particular interest is the death penalty. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. 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