Will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers.
Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
Gregory Mankiw, Robert M.
Read it, expand Your mind, and have fun -- N.
Let the games begin Entertaining as well as edifying.
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.
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. -- George Gilder, author of Knowledge and Power and Life After Google Can you Outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author and professor of economics, dares you to try.
You may even end up \'smarter than Google.\' But you will not readily put down this exhilarating adventure in ideas. -- Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic This ingenious gallop through the mind of Steven Landsburg enables you to think like an economist without incurring a Keynesian headache or a huge student loan.
Will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers
