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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
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 Posted - 05/03/2006 : 07:20:08
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Anyone read this? I found it enjoyable in a way that I didn't really expect. It's very much common sense, except perhaps about correlations that I never considered. The first three chapters in particular I liked, that really get into social psychology, incentives, and why people behave as they do and how economics is used to get them to behave as desired. The book kind of goes downhill a little bit, particularly in the last chapter on names, but I found it interesting nonetheless.
 "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 16:48:54
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| Sorry, but I don't have anything to offer other than economists suck. I haven't read the book but have seen the guy on talk shows. They (economists) find a correlation and are done. No need for causation or finding a mechanism. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11690 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 16:52:51
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I'm not familiar with him, but I felt he did a fair job on explaining and trying to justify his data and regressing it. I'm not saying I accept it as gospel either, but it's interesting to see somewhat alternative ideas examined and put forward.
But I'm not an economist, I just took a bunch of math and some stats classes.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
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