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Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist | 
| Author: Tyler Cowen
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 526148
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.019
ASIN: B0013VZI84
Publication Date: August 2, 2007
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Condition: Book and dust cover in great condition. Has remainder mark on bottom edge.
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Product Description
Freakonomics revealed much about our society. Now, one of Americas most respected economists reveals how individuals can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily lifeat home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual is the key to successful and satisfactory daily interactionsfrom getting the kids to do the dishes to having a productive business meeting, attracting a mate to finding a good guide in a foreign country. Discovering your inner economist, Cowen suggests, can lead to a happier, more satisfying life. What better carrot could you ask for?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Extremely understandable, easy to read August 28, 2008
This book reminds me of Stephen Hawking's "A brief History of time." Great authors can always make abstruse stuff understandable to even illiterate.
Great Book! June 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a fast and easy read! The info is definitely worth the cost of time and money in other words: high ROI!
 Inner Econimist thoughts June 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is good, well-written and interesting. Specially good is the analyze about the logics of museums and the construction of musical tastes. The lesson of the author is "economic thougth does not build happiness". It seems to me tha way of thinking economic thought is refreshing.
 Follow the author's advice June 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cowen is an econ prof. and I am an econ student/junky. I read a lot of econ related books, and this has really very few insights,nothing spectacular. There are some interesting points however, mostly on how to read books.
1. Read several at once and pick one(It should not be DYIE)
2. If you do not follow tip one - Skip pages and go back to read the later(or don't)
thats my opinion quickly stated.
 Lazy Writing June 5, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
For someone trained in the realm of economics, Tyler Cowen unfailingly lapses into moral judgments to support his views. For example, in his stated view anyone who does not buy their significant others expensive gifts is an utter failure as a companion. The book is written with the intellectual honesty of a tabloid journalist. Those who agree with his ideas are seen as simpletons who obviously grasped the intelligence of his ideas and those that disagree are not just viewed as different but repeatedly shown to be "evil" and morally inaccurate, doomed to live a life of misery. This type of intellectual laziness is entirely unnecessary from someone speaking as an "Economist" and does more to damage the credibility of similar books with solid facts than it does to encourage continued research and exploration in the fields he supports.
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