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| Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist | 
| Author: Tyler Cowen
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 676326
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.019
ASIN: B0013VZI84
Publication Date: August 2, 2007
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Product Description
In Discover Your Inner Economist one of Americas most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantageoften when you least expect it to be relevant.
Like no other economist, Tyler Cowen shows how economic notions--such as incentives, signals, and markets--apply far more widely than merely to the decisions of social planners, governments, and big business. What does economic theory say about ordering from a menu? Or attracting the right mate? Or controlling people who talk too much in meetings? Or dealing with your dentist? With a wryly amusing voice, in chapters such as How to Control the World, The Basics and How to Control the World, Knowing When to Stop Cowen reveals the hidden economic patterns behind everyday situations so you can get more of what you really want.
Readers will also gain less selfish insights into how to be a good partner, neighbor and even citizen of the world. For instance, what is the best way to give to charity? The chapter title How to Save the WorldMore Christmas Presents Wont Help makes a point that is every bit as personal as it is global.
Incentives are at the core of an economic approach to the world, but they dont just come in cash. In fact, money can be a disincentive. Cowen shows why, for example, it doesnt work to pay your kids to do the dishes. Other kinds of incentives--like making sure family members know they will be admired if they respect you--can work. Another non- monetary incentive? Try having everyone stand up in your next meeting if you dont want anyone to drone on. Deeply felt incentives like pride in ones work or a passing smile from a loved one, can be the most powerful of all, even while they operate alongside more mundane rewards such as money and free food.
Discover Your Inner Economist is an introduction to the science of economics that shows it to be built on notions that are already within all of us. While the implications of those ideas lead to Cowens often counterintuitive advice, their wisdom is presented in ordinary examples taken from home life, work life, and even vacation life How do you get a good guide in a Moroccan bazaar?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 Great Book! June 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a fast and easy read! The info is definitely worth the cost of time and money in other words: high ROI!
 Inner Econimist thoughts June 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is good, well-written and interesting. Specially good is the analyze about the logics of museums and the construction of musical tastes. The lesson of the author is "economic thougth does not build happiness". It seems to me tha way of thinking economic thought is refreshing.
 Follow the author's advice June 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cowen is an econ prof. and I am an econ student/junky. I read a lot of econ related books, and this has really very few insights,nothing spectacular. There are some interesting points however, mostly on how to read books.
1. Read several at once and pick one(It should not be DYIE)
2. If you do not follow tip one - Skip pages and go back to read the later(or don't)
thats my opinion quickly stated.
 Lazy Writing June 5, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For someone trained in the realm of economics, Tyler Cowen unfailingly lapses into moral judgments to support his views. For example, in his stated view anyone who does not buy their significant others expensive gifts is an utter failure as a companion. The book is written with the intellectual honesty of a tabloid journalist. Those who agree with his ideas are seen as simpletons who obviously grasped the intelligence of his ideas and those that disagree are not just viewed as different but repeatedly shown to be "evil" and morally inaccurate, doomed to live a life of misery. This type of intellectual laziness is entirely unnecessary from someone speaking as an "Economist" and does more to damage the credibility of similar books with solid facts than it does to encourage continued research and exploration in the fields he supports.
better title: Discover my inner vanity May 2, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm not like the author that buys books and after a few pages stop reading them, when I buy a book I try to be very selective, I don't like to waste my time and money.
I guess I did a mistake when I bought this book
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