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Summary: More academic but less entertaining than Rush Limbaugh
Review: An interesting read for all those individuals who claim that economists are too abstract. Each article offers practicle, and simple, solutions for many of today's social, and political, problems. The writing style of the authors is fairly simple and is not heavy on economic jargon. I especially enjoyed the Becker's ability to cram so much relevant info into small articles. I really enjoyed the collection of artlicles and would highly recommend the book to any person interested in economics.
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Summary: pretty good
Review: Despite the Beckers' clear and obvious conservative bias, this is a pretty good book and well worth reading for anyone who wants to learn more about economics. For less slanted books, I would recommend "The Armchair Economist" and "Naked Economics."
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Summary: pretty good
Review: Despite the Beckers' clear and obvious conservative bias, this is a pretty good book and well worth reading for anyone who wants to learn more about economics. For less slanted books, I would recommend "The Armchair Economist" and "Naked Economics."
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Summary: More academic but less entertaining than Rush Limbaugh
Review: This book is good for the smarter-than-average right-winger. If you are suspicious of any ideology, specially about those that claim to have easy solutions to the world's problems, then you are not going to like this book, like me.
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Summary: Good but Dated
Review: This book, published in 1997, contains 138 essays written by the author, Nobel laureate Gary Becker, between 1985 and 1996. Although the writing is uniformly good and the analysis incisive, the age of these essays is sometimes painfully apparent, and there is some annoying repetition of topics. Some essays on the same topics even use the same quotes.
In the introduction, the author's wife (whose expertise is Middle Eastern women's history) writes that "without [her] encouragement, criticism, and suggestions, the results would have been vastly inferior." She also takes co-authorship credit for the essays despite their original publication in Business Week under her husband's name.
I don't know what goes on in the Becker house, but claiming that a Nobel laureate's work would have been 'vastly inferior' without a non-economist's suggestions and encouragement deprecates Becker's abilities.
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Summary: Interesting introductory text to practical economics
Review: This is a collection of articles Becker has published during his career as an economic contributer to Business Week. After having read some of Becker's other books, I came to the conclusion that this book is two things:
1) An easy to understand intro to the usage of economic principles to solve problems. Becker's other books were essentially on similar topics, but with a much more rigorous analysis.
2) An intro to new topics that could be approached from a much more rigorous standpoint. Becker's curious mind actually points out to many issues (such as immigration, affirmative action, and many other gov't issues) that would benefit from a more rigorous economic approach.Good entertainment value, with about 80% of essays really interesting and the rest fillers.
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Summary: Interesting introductory text to practical economics
Review: This is a collection of articles Becker has published during his career as an economic contributer to Business Week. After having read some of Becker's other books, I came to the conclusion that this book is two things:
1) An easy to understand intro to the usage of economic principles to solve problems. Becker's other books were essentially on similar topics, but with a much more rigorous analysis.
2) An intro to new topics that could be approached from a much more rigorous standpoint. Becker's curious mind actually points out to many issues (such as immigration, affirmative action, and many other gov't issues) that would benefit from a more rigorous economic approach. Good entertainment value, with about 80% of essays really interesting and the rest fillers.
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