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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World PDF

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THE LOGIC OF LIFE RATIONAL IRRATIONAL TIM HARFORD ALSO BY TIM HARFORD THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST THE LOGIC OF LIFE THE RATIONAL ECONOMICS OF AN IRRATIONAL WORLD Tim Harford A ....NDOM >+OO<E NEWYOIlK CopyrightCl1008byTim Harfon:l rvro. All right>te.. Publj,hodin ,hoUnitodStato,by Random Houso,animprintofTheRandom Hou>e Publi.hingGroup,adi"i,ionofRandom H"""" Inc.,NowYork. RANDOM Ho".. andcolophonare registorodtrademarksoflUndom House. [ne. UBIlARYOPCONCR."CATAt.OGING-IN-PUllICAT'ON DATA Harford,Tim Thelogicoflife:the....tionaleconomicsofan irntionalworldI Tim H..ford. p. cm. Indudes bibliog....phiealfofore""". and index. <iSBN: 978-1-58836-682-5 1. Economic_Psychological "pec... 2. Rational<xpeetatioruJ (Economictheory) 1. Title HB74.P8H375 2008 339-dd2 2007030233 .........<rv>dom.rom vLO TO ADRIAN 'NO AFRICA, WHO WILL GET HER TURN IN THE STROLLER CONTENTSe INTRODUCTION , ONE INTRODUCING THE LOGIC OF UFE TWO LAS VEGAS TH REElS DIVORCE UNDERRATED? 62 F0 UR WHY YOUR BOSS IS OVERPAID &8 FIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 109 SIX THE DANGERS OF RATIONAL RACISM 130 SE VEN THE WORLD IS SPIKY 149 E IG H T RATIONAL REVOLUTIONS 174 NINE A MILUONYEARS OF LOGIC '93 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS "S NOTES '" INDEX

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Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persi
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