The Undercover Economist

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出版社: Little Brown
2007-05
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780349119854
装帧: 平装
开本: 32开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 278页
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  • Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early inthe morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a footon the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money fromlaundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who reallybenefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, gofrom the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economicrevolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty amonth? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THEUNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamentalprinciples of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from thestreets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to thesleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon andequations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals andnegotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drivenot only the economy at large but the everyday choices wemake. Tim Harford presented the BBC2 TV series TRUST ME I'M ANECONOMIST and writes the Dear Economist' column for the FT Saturdaymagazine. An award-winning public speaker, Tim has been aneconomist for a major oil company and an economics tutor at OxfordUniversity. Acknowledgements

    Introducfion

    1 Who Pays for Your Coffee?

    2 What Supermarkets Don't Want You to Know

    3 Perfect Markets and the 'World of Truth'

    4 Crosstown Traffic

    5 The Inside Story

    6 Rational Insanity

    7 The Men Who Knew the Value of Nothing

    8 Why Poor Countries Are Poor

    9 Beer, Chips and Globalisation

    10 How China Grew Rich

    Notes

    Index
  • 内容简介:
    Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early inthe morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a footon the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money fromlaundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who reallybenefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, gofrom the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economicrevolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty amonth? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THEUNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamentalprinciples of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from thestreets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to thesleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon andequations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals andnegotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drivenot only the economy at large but the everyday choices wemake.
  • 作者简介:
    Tim Harford presented the BBC2 TV series TRUST ME I'M ANECONOMIST and writes the Dear Economist' column for the FT Saturdaymagazine. An award-winning public speaker, Tim has been aneconomist for a major oil company and an economics tutor at OxfordUniversity.
  • 目录:
    Acknowledgements

    Introducfion

    1 Who Pays for Your Coffee?

    2 What Supermarkets Don't Want You to Know

    3 Perfect Markets and the 'World of Truth'

    4 Crosstown Traffic

    5 The Inside Story

    6 Rational Insanity

    7 The Men Who Knew the Value of Nothing

    8 Why Poor Countries Are Poor

    9 Beer, Chips and Globalisation

    10 How China Grew Rich

    Notes

    Index
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