Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: life, everyday, economics, economist, armchair
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0029177766
ISBN-13: 9780029177761

Witty economists are about as easy to find as anorexic mezzo-sopranos, natty mujahedeen, and cheerful Philadelphians. But Steven E. Landsburg...is one economist who fits the bill. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet, the University of Rochester professor valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy. -- Joe Queenan, The Wall Street Journal The Armchair Economist is a wo

Author: Steven Landsburg
Publisher: South-Western College Pu
Keywords: applications, printed, access, semester, card, infotrac, theory, economic, price
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2007-08-02
List price: $217.95
ISBN-10: 0324421613
ISBN-13: 9780324421613

Written in the same humorous, reader-friendly style as Professor Landsburg’s widely popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, the lively seventh edition of PRICE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS adopts an inductive, hands-on approach that enables students to learn economics by doing. And it requires no knowledge or use of calculus. Using a student-friendly, easy-to-understand format, the book thoroughly develops the standard concepts of intermediate price theory as well as timely nontraditional issues not found in many texts -- such as the economics of information. Social welfare is also highli

Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: mathematics, economics, physics, ideas, philosophy, tackling, problems, questions
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 143914821X
ISBN-13: 9781439148211

In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Slate columnist and Economics professor Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how should we live? Landsburg begins with the broadest possible categories from a mathematical analysis of the arguments for the existence of God; to the real meaning of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Godel Incompleteness Theorem; to the moral choices

Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Thomson Southwestern
Keywords: applications, theory, price
Number of Pages: 693
Published: 2008-03-30
List price: $179.95
ISBN-10: 0324579934
ISBN-13: 9780324579932

Intermediate microeconomics is both fun and intellectually challenging in this new edition, written by the author of The Armchair Economist, the popular trade book that explains basic economics to the general public. The text provides an exceptionally friendly and application-rich presentation, combined with a rigorous and careful development of microeconomic theory. All of the standard topics of intermediate price theory are included, as well as innovative topics such as alternative normative criteria, efficient asset markets, contestable markets, antitrust law, human capital, and the demand

Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: sex, economics, wisdom, unconventional, safer
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1416532226
ISBN-13: 9781416532224

Economics is no longer the "dismal science" dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English. Steve Landsburg was one of the first of the new breed, in his book The Armchair Economist and long-running "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine. Now he is back, and more provocative than ever. In More Sex is Safer Sex, Landsburg shows how the rational behavior of each one of us -- when combined together -- produces the often bizarre,

Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: sex, economics, wisdom, unconventional, safer
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416532218
ISBN-13: 9781416532217

With his long-running ’Everyday Economics’ column in Slate and his popular book, The Armchair Economist, Steve Landsburg has been leading the pack of economists who are transforming their science from a drab meditation on graphs and charts into a fascinating window on human nature. Now he’s back and more provocative than ever with surprises on virtually every page. In More Sex is Safer Sex, Professor Landsburg offers readers a series of stimulating discussions that all flow from one unsettling fact. Combining the rational decisions of each of us often produces an irrational r

Author: Steven Landsburg
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Keywords: theory, applications, price, landsburg, guide, study
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-09-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0324421664
ISBN-13: 9780324421668

The Study Guide contains for each chapter a brief chapter summary, key terms, key ideas corresponding to the sections of the text, completion exercises, true/false questions, multiple choice questions, questions for review, problems, and solutions for all questions and problems.