received this book through Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. Overall, I liked this book. Harford made many excellent points regarding the drawbacks to the tidy-minded approach that is often idolized in society and the advantages of a messy life. This book is packed with so much informati...
Q:(I think we can all agree that a bunch of lawyers on Capitol Hill are capable of mismanaging anything, and if babysitting is all that suffers, we can count ourselves lucky.)(c)
'Martin Wolf is correct to suggest that sweatshops are better than the horrors that came before them, and a step on the road to something better.' Controversial and yet when explained in the context of China as a rising global economy I am inclined to agree with it. (I won't continue, otherwise I'...
~~Moved from GR~~ The Logic of Life By Tim Harford Recommended to Carly by: the author's radio programme and other book--that'll teach me to theorize ahead of the evidence. Recommended for: Readers who can identify the wild jumps in logic, yet still enjoy the book Tim Harford, you're breaking my...
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford Full disclosure--Tim Hartford runs my absolute favourite radio programme ever: BBC Radio 4's More or Less, a topical statistics programme. Yes, you heard me right. Basically, they do fact-checking on audience-recommended bizarre-sounding statistics. It's funn...
"Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". This book is enough to rise readers' interest, and many episodes introduced in the book are also likely to back up the author's idea. But, as pages go on, I've also felt that connection between what an author intended to say and a title got loose more...
The book presents most realistic scenarios of day to day life in most economical way, and defines a pocket friendly aspect of it. A book away from heart and closer to pocket!
The advice Hartford gives is frequently not practical (there's an awful lot of bribery, for instance) but it does make for an entertaining read. You don't need to be a student of economics to understand or enjoy the book.
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