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The armchair economist Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher: Free Press

The Big Questions (http://www.thebigquestions.com/). This week I got a little long winded in my editorial for my Patch column. You won't need a degree in economics to enjoy this fascinating book, just an armchair and an inquiring mind. "This is one of the very best books on pricing. Armchair Economist's Fix for the Nation – Editorial on Patch. Armchair economist – 'empower the individual and minimise the state' - writes on 'Bill Gates and Altruism' here: “We can help others by simply helping ourselves–Adam Smith demonstrated this in the 18th century. While I'm sure it is of course true, I thought it might be interesting to do a little armchair analysis to confirm. Steven Landsburg's The Armchair Economist is one of the best economics books ever written. This is what Ludwig von Mises meant when he insisted that Austrian economics is value-free. Fair Play; More Sex is Safer Sex; The Big Questions. Heath also takes on some popular economic writers like Steven Landsburg (The Armchair Economist) and Charles Wheelan (Naked Economics) and shows how they have oversimplified the world. You don't need to be an expert economist or have a degree in economics to understand the basic principles of economics that can be seen everywhere in everyday life. Posted on May 1, 2011 by Heather Rayne. It is insightful, disarmingly simple and yet sophisticated and, at the same time, provocative, passionate, and witty.