| Publication |
London, Abacus, 2009.
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| Description |
xii, 272pWhite spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
A fascinating study of how society is shaped by hidden pay-offs and punishments, of how behaviour can be irrational ike smoking and taking drugs, of how your idiot boss is overpaid and how so-called anti-social individuals like prostitutes, rascists and revolutionaries also comply with economic logic.
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| Contents |
Introducing the logic of life
Las Vegas
Is divorce underrated?
Why your boss is overpaid
In the neighbourhood
The dangers of rational rascism
The world is spiky
Rational revolutions
A million years of logic
Notes
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| Standard Number |
978-0-349-12041-6 Pb.
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