史蒂文·蘭茲伯格為芝加哥大學經濟學博士,現任羅徹斯特大學經濟學教授。蘭茲伯格在《Slate》網絡雜誌撰寫的“每日經濟學”專欄深受歡迎,他也應邀在《財富》、《福布斯》、《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《華爾街日報》等刊物發錶文章。著有《一個經濟學傢給女兒的忠告》、《價格理論與應用》,以及暢銷書《生命中的經濟遊戲》。
Steven Landsburg's writings are living proof that economics need not be "the dismal science." Readers of The Armchair Economist and his columns in Slate magazine know that he can make economics not only fun but fascinating, as he searches for the reasons behind the odd facts we face in our daily lives. In More Sex Is Safer Sex, he brings his witty and razor-sharp analysis to the many ways that our individually rational decisions can combine into some truly weird collective results -- and he proposes hilarious and serious ways to fix just about everything.
When you stand up at the ballpark in order to see better, you make a rational decision. When everyone else does it too, the results, of course, are lousy. But this is just the tip of the iceberg of individual sanity and collective madness. Did you know that some people may actually increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases when they avoid casual sex? Do you know why tall people earn more money than shorter competitors? (Hint: it isn't just unfair, unconscious prejudice.) Do you know why it makes no sense for you to give charitable donations to more than one organization?
Landsburg's solutions to the many ways that modern life is unfair or inefficient are both jaw-dropping and maddeningly defensible. We should encourage people to cut in line at water fountains on hot days. We should let firefighters keep any property they rescue from burning houses. We should encourage more people to act like Scrooge, because misers are just as generous as philanthropists.
Best of all are Landsburg's commonsense solutions to the political problems that plague our democracy. We should charge penalties to jurors if they convict a felon who is later exonerated. We should let everyone vote in two congressional districts: their own, and any other one of their choice. While we're at it, we should redraw the districts according to the alphabetical lists of all voters, rather than by geography. We should pay FDA commissioners with shares of pharmaceutical company stocks, and pay our president with a diversified portfolio of real estate from across the country.
Why do parents of sons stay married more often than parents who have only daughters? Why does early motherhood not only correlate with lower income, but actually cause it? Why do we execute murderers but not the authors of vicious computer viruses? The lesson of this fascinating, fun, and endlessly provocative book is twofold: many apparently very odd behaviors have logical explanations, and many apparently logical behaviors make no sense whatsoever.
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評分此书很黄很暴力——评《性越多越安全》 【读品】http://www.douban.com/group/dp/ 李华芳 商用请联系:welfarelee@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “性,血汗工厂,童工”,这三个词语出现在一本书中,会给你...
評分《性越多越安全》往畅销的方向偏离得太多了。其他不说,光这个标题就得让人绕不少弯子。不过,如果领会了作者的意图,你将会明白,整本书几乎所有案例都是以宏观阐述为基调(不知道这是不是宏观经济学的概念),所谓的性越多越安全,并非针对个体,而是某个人群的行为对全社会...
評分《性越多越安全》往畅销的方向偏离得太多了。其他不说,光这个标题就得让人绕不少弯子。不过,如果领会了作者的意图,你将会明白,整本书几乎所有案例都是以宏观阐述为基调(不知道这是不是宏观经济学的概念),所谓的性越多越安全,并非针对个体,而是某个人群的行为对全社会...
評分为甚么我们总是一窝蜂去读畅销书?容我大段引述梁文道的解释,它至少不会比大部分畅销书更冗长: 「一本书不能有太多创见,以致于过度违背常识,才看几页就受不了。但是它却要显得有点智慧,将读者都明白甚至认同的道理用很聪明的方法包装一下,使得读者感到有那么一点...
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