Most people relate economics with broad and complicated conceptions, like the stock-market, big business, and international trade. Most people also assume that economists are dismally technical.
In this book, Steven Landsburg attempts to prove them wrong. He shows how the laws of economics can reveal themselves in surprising and humorous ways. He demonstrates that people respond to incentives in understandable, if not always predictable, ways. By illustrating how economists think about daily experience, he lays the basis for a richer appreciation of the full range of economic activity. In this guided tour of the familiar, through an unfamiliar lens, Landsburg explains many of the key issues of economics in chapters that read more like detective stories than textbook lessons.