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Robert H. Frank is a professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. His "Economic Scene" column appears monthly in The New York Times. He is the author of Choosing the Right Pond, The Winner-Take-All Society, and Luxury Fever, among others. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
- 经济学
- 经济
- economic
- 经济入门趣味书
- 英文原版
- 《经济学中的自然主义》
- RobertFrank
- Economics
The fascinating and playful guide to how economics explains the simple but profound ideas that govern our world.
Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando?
For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which they do everywhere, all the time.
Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons.
The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost benefit principle, the "no cash left on the table" principle, and the law of one price. There is no more delightful and painless way of learning these fundamental principles.
"Smart, snappy and delightful. Bob Frank is one of America's best writers on economics." -- Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, and author of In Praise of Commercial Culture and What Price Fame?
"Fascinating, mind-expanding, and lots of fun." -- Steven Pinker, Harvard University, and author of The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and The Stuff of Thought
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评分这本书和《苹果桔子经济学》最大的不同是，它里面所用的理论，都是瞎猜的，全没有研究证明。 瞎猜可能猜错，也可能猜对，包括一些瞎猜非常有道理，也非常著名，比如“为什么牛奶盒子是方形，软饮料盒子是圆柱形”。但是，读者必须了解到，这些是瞎猜！ 看到封面，当然以为是《...
评分首先要说的是，这本90%以上都不是自己东西的书到底能不能归自己所有。也许是因为大部分使其学生写出的（或许经过了修改）但是全面调查这么多问题是不可能的，所以就出现了学生水平和作者不了解所局限出的看问题的不完备性，为了解决问题，总是强调问题的一个面而忽略其他方面，...
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