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The Economics of Everyday Life
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The book is for listeners who would like to learn economics for the fun of it - economics understood not as the study of the economy but as a tool for understanding human behavior: crime, marriage, politics, and much else.
Praise for the book:
"The book of the month is Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. One doesn't normally think of an economics book as light and pleasant reading, but David makes it seem so. If you have any interest in economics at all, you'll find this book both readable and fascinating; and I guarantee you'll learn something from it." (Jerry Pournelle in Byte)
“In David Friedman’s hands, economics becomes a sprightly science. Friedman has the rare knack of introducting fundamental principles with humorous examples. [A] dazzling array that runs the gamut from supermarkets to pirate ships. [A] clear picture of how simple assumptions about individual preferences and human rationality can increase our understanding of ordinary market behavior and a wide range of social institutions from marriage, to crime, to voting.” (Richard A. Epstein, The University of Chicago Law School)
“Hidden Order helps us look at everyday experience from the perspective of basic economics. Readers will be surprised to learn how much economics explains about their own behavior as well as about that of others...” (James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1986)
"The author is a talented teacher, and he moves effortlessly from the traffic jams and grocery stores to the efficient-market hypothesis, price theory, and backward-bending labor curves." (Deborah Stead in The New York Times)
“A surprisingly lucid and useful book, and about as appealing as economics gets." (Kirkus Reviews)
David Friedman apparently has written the book for the purpose of teaching you something, something which many textbook writers apparently don’t feel the need to take into consideration.” (Garret Wilson, Booknotes interview)
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "dismal science," is a positive force for the common good.
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A Great Overview of the Challenges of Modern Econ
- De Zach Sullivan en 08-06-18
De: Jean Tirole, y otros
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FairTax
- The Truth
- De: Neal Boortz, John Linder
- Narrado por: Neal Boortz
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Offering stunning new insights not covered in the original book, FairTax: The Truth debunks the negative myths and gross misrepresentations of this groundbreaking idea. The FairTax plan is simple, brilliant, and it will work - enabling you to keep all the money in your paycheck; eliminating the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system; and revolutionizing the way America pays for itself.
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Sound, well-researched plan
- De Tim Hibbetts en 03-06-08
De: Neal Boortz, y otros
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Free to Choose
- A Personal Statement
- De: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental agencies, laws, and regulations.
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Fantastic
- De Erik en 01-21-08
De: Milton Friedman, y otros
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A Capitalism for the People
- Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
- De: Luigi Zingales
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better.
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Enjoyable but a tad predictable.
- De Kevin en 12-24-12
De: Luigi Zingales
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?
- Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
- De: Ryan Cooper
- Narrado por: Ryan Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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How Are You Going to Pay for That? is filled with engaging discussions and detailed strategies that policymakers and citizens alike can use to assail even the most entrenched lines of neoliberal logic and start to undo these long-held misconceptions. Equal parts economic theory, history, and political polemic, this is an essential roadmap for winning the key battles to come.
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Not horrible but not correct either
- De David en 03-20-23
De: Ryan Cooper
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Naked Money
- A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth $20? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.
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This is a beautiful audiobook, and well-narrated.
- De Thirsty Mind en 11-10-18
De: Charles Wheelan
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Money Mischief
- Episodes in Monetary History
- De: Milton Friedman
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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What kind of mischief can result from misunderstanding the monetary system? The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to appease a few senators from the American West who helped communism triumph in China, are just 2 such mishaps cited in this important work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. This accessible work also provides an in-depth discussion on the creation of value.
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This book is not unabridged.
- De James en 01-18-09
De: Milton Friedman
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Cheap
- The High Cost of Discount Culture
- De: Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.
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You Get What You Pay For?
- De Roy en 07-26-09
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Phishing for Phools
- The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
- De: George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception.
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Useful for a certain audience, but ...
- De Philo en 02-29-16
De: George A. Akerlof, y otros
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- De: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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While I agree with most of this book,...
- De Wayne en 12-30-16
De: Don Watkins, y otros
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The Fine Print
- How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind
- De: David Cay Johnston
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.
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A must listen if you love or hate Trump
- De Rob D en 04-19-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Hidden Order
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- Taylor Britton
- 06-03-21
recovering the sunken costs of reading this
I personally valued the information contained in this book more than the price I paid for it. I also don't believe in the ethics or efficacy of IP law and would have been more than happy to steal the book if I didn't also value the services Amazon provides (cloud storage of books, hosting a forum for my reviews etc) and also wish to incentivize the author to publish future works. So while I have already profited from this exchange, I still however wish to recover the costs I have sunk into listening to this book (and other various economic works) so I may profit more than I already have. So I think I will further invest in some more physical copies and distribute them to interested parties on the margins who would happily spend the time to read such a book if given to them, but are not willing to expend the money and effort of selecting the book and paying for it themselves. I will benefit from their reading of the book by helping to transform them into more informed people to talk to, giving them the framework to see the world as comes so naturally to me.
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- 01-14-21
Interesting book but poor narration
I’m part way through the first chapter and so far the content seems very promising. It sounds like it could be a very interesting book that does a great job explaining basic economic principles and applying them to the “real world” (ie, everyday life rather than finance.)
However, the performance is very poor and significantly brings down the overall quality. The book is narrated by the author himself. This is not unusual, but unfortunately there are two issues:
1) He appears to be an amateur narrator and it shows. It sounds like an average, untrained person simply reading a book aloud. You can also hear moments where he misspeaks and catches himself and other moments where he clearly sliced together edits awkwardly.
2) He used a sub-par mic. It almost sounds like it was recorded on his phone and you can even hear subtle background noise such as the roadway outside his room.
I really want to like this book, but unfortunately I don’t anticipate finishing it. The performance it quite amateur and distracting. I hope that the author is able to invest in creating a second audio version with a more professional performer, equipment, and sound editing. Until then, I would recommend seeking out a paper or Kindle version of this book.
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