TYLER COWEN tugs popular economics in the direction of self-help: how you can use simple insights and intuitions from economic theory to get more of what you want. The dust jacket of his book promises tips on love, work and dentistry, and that's only the start. There are suggestions for improving your reading habits, surviving torture, getting the dishes done at home, collecting fine art, going to the cinema, giving to charity and ordering food when eating out (at an expensive restaurant, “If it sounds bad, it probably tastes especially good”).“Discover Your Inner Economist” joins a recent school of books demystifying and popularising economics that began with Steven Landsburg's “Armchair Economist” in 1993, and conquered the bestseller lists in 2005 with “Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. It stands apart from its predecessors by making its revelations not so much about the way the world works as about the way we ourselves work (and play) and how we can take practical steps to do both better.
I read half of the book a few weeks ago and would have finished it by now had it not been for my field exam and starting law school. I enjoyed the first half of the book immensely and look forward to finishing it soon.
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