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The Inner Lives of Markets
Author | : Ray Fisman,Tim Sullivan |
Publsiher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781610394932 |
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What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affects not just the price of tomatoes but the boundaries of everything we value. Reading the newspapers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that markets are getting ever more efficient—and better. But as Tim Sullivan and Ray Fisman argue in this insightful book, that view is far from complete. For one thing, efficiency isn't always a good thing—illegal markets are very often more efficient than legal ones, because they are free of concern for laws and human rights. But even more importantly, the chatter about efficiency has obscured a much broader conversation about what kind of economic exchange we actually want. Every regulation, every sticker price, and every sale is part of an ever-changing ecosystem—one that affects us as much as we affect it. By tracing 50 years of economic thought on this subject, Fisman and Sullivan show how markets have evolved—and how we can keep making them better. This leads to fascinating and surprising insights, such as: Why your $10,000 used car is likely to sell for $2,000 or less; Why you should think twice before buying batteries on Amazon; and Why it's essential that healthy people buy medical insurance. In the end, The Inner Lives of Markets argues for a new way of thinking about how you spend your money—it shows that every transaction you make is part of a grand social experiment. We are all guinea pigs running through a lab maze, and the sooner we realize it, the more effectively we can navigate the path we want.
The Inner Lives of Markets
Author | : Raymond Fisman,Tim Sullivan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Consumer behavior |
ISBN | : 1444788604 |
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What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affects not just the price of tomatoes but the boundaries of everything we value. Reading the newspapers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that markets are getting ever more efficient--and better. But as Tim Sullivan and Ray Fisman argue in this insightful book, that view is far from complete. For one thing, efficiency isn't always a good thing--illegal markets are very often more efficient than legal ones, because they are free of concern for laws and human rights. But even more importantly, the chatter about efficiency has obscured a much broader conversation about what kind of economic exchange we actually want. Every regulation, every sticker price, and every sale is part of an ever-changing ecosystem--one that affects us as much as we affect it. By tracing 50 years of economic thought on this subject, Fisman and Sullivan show how markets have evolved--and how we can keep making them better. This leads to fascinating and surprising insights, such as: Why your $10,000 used car is likely to sell for $2,000 or less; Why you should think twice before buying batteries on Amazon; and Why it's essential that healthy people buy medical insurance. In the end, The Inner Lives of Markets argues for a new way of thinking about how you spend your money--it shows that every transaction you make is part of a grand social experiment. We are all guinea pigs running through a lab maze, and the sooner we realize it, the more effectively we can navigate the path we want.
The Inner Life of the Christian
Author | : Frederick August Rauch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : COLUMBIA:50198824 |
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The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln
Author | : Francis Bicknell Carpenter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112047569212 |
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The Inner Life of Empires
Author | : Emma Rothschild |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691156125 |
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The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.
The Inner Life of Children with Special Needs
Author | : Ved Prakash Varma |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780470698518 |
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Most children have interesting interior lives that contain dreams, fantasies, hopes, fears, beliefs and their unconscious lives. This can be inferred from their preoccupations, stories, plays, games, conversations and behaviour. Because many children with special needs are emotionally confused, anxious and angry, their inner lives often contain secrets that may be permanent and damaging. These children nevertheless put out clear signals that they want to be understood.
The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth
Author | : Robert Barclay |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UOM:39015039352284 |
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With emphasis on the Society of Friends.
The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth Etc
Author | : Robert Barclay (of Tottenham.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026341466 |
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