More sex is safer sex: the unconventional wisdom of economics Landsburg, Steven E.

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Landsburg, Steven E

Publication details: New York Free Press 2007Description: xii, 275 pISBN:

9781416532217

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Summary: Economics is no longer the ""dismal science"" dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English. Steve Landsburg was one of the first of the new breed, in his book The Armchair Economist and long-running ""Everyday Economics"" column in Slate magazine. Now he is back, and more provocative than ever. In More Sex is Safer Sex, Landsburg shows how the rational behavior of each one of us--when combined together--produces the often bizarre, seemingly irrational behavior of crowds. We all stand up at the ballpark, so none of us can see. We avoid casual sex, from fear of disease, and we thereby make sex more dangerous. Things really get interesting when Landsburg suggests ways to change the rules, and game the system."

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Economics is no longer the ""dismal science"" dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English. Steve Landsburg was one of the first of the new breed, in his book The Armchair Economist and long-running ""Everyday Economics"" column in Slate magazine. Now he is back, and more provocative than ever. In More Sex is Safer Sex, Landsburg shows how the rational behavior of each one of us--when combined together--produces the often bizarre, seemingly irrational behavior of crowds. We all stand up at the ballpark, so none of us can see. We avoid casual sex, from fear of disease, and we thereby make sex more dangerous. Things really get interesting when Landsburg suggests ways to change the rules, and game the system."

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