Economists are not boring
In the last year, two successful books – Stephen Levitt’s Freakonomics and Tim Harford’s Undercover Economist – have attempted to bring Marshall’s conception of economics as the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life to the dinner table. Levitt and Harford are undeniably opinionated, but they are not boring: whether they are wrong you must decide for yourself. What you will find are sufficient everyday topics of conversation to captivate a future mother-in-law and turn the tables on a loquacious cab driver.
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