02044cam a2200313 i 4500 358477191 TxAuBib 20181015120000.0 180429s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018006350 9781328489869 16.99 1328489868 16.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Landsburg, Steven E., 1954- Can you outsmart an economist [BOOK] : 100+ puzzles to train your brain / Steven Landsburg. Boston, MA : Mariner Books, 2018. xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographic sources. Warmups -- Inferences -- Predictions -- Explanations -- Strategy -- How irrational are you? -- Law school admissions test -- Are you smarter than Google? -- Backward reasoning -- Knowledge -- Now are you smarter than google? -- How to make decisions -- Matters of life and death -- The coinflipper's dilemma -- Albert and the dinosaurs -- Money, trade and finance. Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional economics primer, he brings together over one hundred puzzles and brain teasers that illustrate the subject's key concepts and pitfalls. From warm-up exercises to get your brain working, to logic and probability problems, to puzzles covering more complex topics like inferences, strategy, and irrationality, Can You Outsmart an Economist? will show you how to do just that by expanding the way you think about decision making and problem solving. Provided by publisher. 20181015. Economics Problems, exercises, etc. Puzzles and games. Problems and exercises. Logic puzzles.