Choice and Consequence

Schelling, Thomas C.

ISBN 10: 0674127706 / ISBN 13: 9780674127708

Editore: Harvard Univ Pr, 1984

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Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Foxing to top edge. Jacket sunned. Binding slightly splayed. Scattered underlining and markings to a couple pages. Thomas Schelling is a political economist 'conspicuous for wandering' An errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.

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• Titolo: Choice and Consequence
• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674127706
• ISBN 13: 9780674127708
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Business and Economics

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Riassunto

A political economist examines the subject of ambiguous rationality in relation to such phenomena as nuclear terrorism, blackmail, euthanasia, and daydreaming and discusses the ethical issues of policy

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Book by Schelling Thomas C