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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:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 1194680
Format: Bargain Price
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Lazy Writing June 5, 2008
8 out of 9 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
7 out of 10 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
 Economics for everyone! April 21, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Oustanding book. Tyler Cowen has proved that he's not only an amazing professor, but really witty person, too. If you wanna know, how can you prevail in many various situations of your professional or personal life, for instance when you're tortured, under pressure, before your meeting or seeing your dentist, Tyler gives you extraordinary, but useful and effective hints, how to use incentives to make your life easier as well as to just have more fun. Why we don't have more sex? Could be the marginal-utility law interesting? If you don't think so, it is another countable reason, why you should purchase this item. Discovering your Inner economist is also important for the future of our society. Wanna know more? Don't hesitate!
Wanders March 13, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book wanders like a stream of consciousness. I did not walk away with any profound understanding of economics' manifestations in everyday life. If you're looking for a book that marries economic principles with social incentives try Freakonomics, The Armchair Economist, or Freedomonics.
 Worthy Read March 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Once you have indulged in a hand full of these pop-econ books you begin to notice an annoying pattern of repetition--identical themes dressed up in new analogies and examples that are fun, but nonetheless, identical to the previous book you read. Cowen's book is somewhat different, being extremely well written with a healthy blend of metaphors, but I was not thoroughly impressed. I see little innovation in his offered solutions and many of them are just elaborate duhs!!! However, I won't yawn at Cowens' approach to writing too much and would really suggest this book to any regimented, non-economist, individual who's looking for a little spice. For the more aware, I suggest Landsburg.
Jeremiah Dyke
http://radical--thought.blogspot.com/
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