The economics of life : from baseball to affirmative action to immigration, how real-world issues affect our everyday life
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The economics of life : from baseball to affirmative action to immigration, how real-world issues affect our everyday life
McGraw-Hill, c1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes index
内容説明・目次
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: hard ISBN 9780070059436
内容説明
Gary S. Becker is one of the few modern economists to apply economic theory to human behavior. He has won global recognition and a Nobel Prize for his theory of "economic reasoning," a provocative world-view that says our daily actions and choices are influenced more than we know by market forces and economic incentives. In "The Economics of Life", Gary Becker and historian Guity Nashat Becker have collected the best of the economist's popular work from "Business Week" (where he is a monthly columnist). These thought-provoking essays show us where we have been and where, for better of worse, we are headed. Many of them aroused heated debate upon their original publication, and they will no doubt do so again.
Extending well beyond the traditional range of economics, these 138 essays crisply address the changing role of women in modern economies, crime, immigration, drugs, marriage contracts, the effects of the stock market collapse in 1987, whether the Japanese stock market has been rigged, the organization of major league baseball and other sports, communism, competition between religions, the "Swedish way," discrimination against minorities, Supreme Court decisions, government spending, addictions, and many other topics. Although the Beckers empahsize analysis, they do not shy away from advocating controversial changes in public policy and personal behavior. Among their provative recommendations: legalizing drugs, selling the rights to immigrate, privatizing social security, enforcing marriage contracts more fully, curtailing welfare sharply, limiting the terms of Supreme Court justices and other heavy drinking, and reforming health care to preserve free choice and competition. Such changes, declare the authors, can vastly improve life in the next millennium - if we as a society, and as individuals, are wise and bold enough to take action now.
Beholden to no idology, ("We do not identify with any political party in the United States since none takes a consistent position on whether individuals respond to incentives and know their own interests better than politicians and bureaucrats do"), Gary S. Becker and Guity Nashat Becker will set you thinking and perhaps change your mind about the connections between economics and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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: pbk ISBN 9780070067097
内容説明
'...the 1992 Nobel laureate demonstrates his well-known talent for extending ever further the frontiers of economics...in these pieces, the real world is very much at hand' - "Business Week". 'Becker goes tot he root of the problem...brims with fresh insights' - "The Wall Street Journal". 1992 Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker is one of the few modern economists to apply economic theory to human behavior. His provocative world-view states that our daily actions and choices are influenced more than we know by market forces and economic incentives.In "The Economics of Life", Gary Becker and historian Guity Nashat Becker have collected the best of the economist's popular work from his monthly "Business Week" column along with introductions that bring each topic into present-day focus. Extending well beyond the traditional range of economics, these 138 essays provocatively address modern issues including: the changing role of women in modern economics, crime, immigration, drugs, discrimination against minorities, and many other topics.
From legalizing drugs to auctioning off immigration rights, the Beckers do not shy away from advocating controversial changes in public policy and personal behavior. They will set you thinking and perhaps change your mind about the connections between economics and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
目次
From the Ivory Tower of Columnist.Regulation and Privatization.Labor Markets and Immigration.Human Capital and Schools.Families.Discrimination.Crime and Addictions.Antitrust and Cartels.Special Interest and Politics.Government Taxes.Capitalism and Other Economic Systems.International Trade and International Agreements.Stock Market and Recessions.Economists.
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