ECONOMICS BOOK: The Economic Naturalist: In search For Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank. Author of LUXURY FEVER and WINNER-TAKE-ALL SOCIETY. A look at everyday question/problems and gives a basic economic concept for the actions and outcomes. ISBN-13 978-0-465-00217-7, ISBN-10 0-465-00217-x. Hardcover, 226 pages, Published by Basic Books Copyright 2007. New Retail $26.00. Like new condition.
Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world--which they do everywhere, all the time.Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it's cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons. The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost benefit principle, the "no cash left on the table" principle, and the law of one price. There is no more delightful and painless way of learning these fundamental principles.
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