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The Price of Everything: Finding Method in the Madness of What Things Cost

The Price of Everything: Finding Method in the Madness of What Things Cost - Paperback

by Eduardo Porter
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eduardo PorterPublish date:2012-02-28Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781591844273ISBN-10:1591844274UPC:9781591844273Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Economics, Decision Making & Problem SolvingBook Topic:MicroeconomicsSize:8.36 x 5.54 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCXYKFBT6Q
"Porter's work out to ring up the audience for Steven Levitt's Freakonomics."
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Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. And we pay someone to cart away trash that would be a valuable commodity in poorer parts of the world.

The Price of Everything starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind each choice, whether we're deciding to have a baby, drive a car, or buy a book. We often fail to appreciate just how critical prices are as motivating forces. But their power becomes clear when distorted prices steer our decisions the wrong way. Eduardo Porter uncovers the true story behind the prices we pay and reveals what those prices are actually telling us.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781591844273ISBN-10:1591844274UPC:9781591844273Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Economics, Decision Making & Problem SolvingBook Topic:MicroeconomicsSize:8.36 x 5.54 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCXYKFBT6Q
Eduardo Porter has been on the staff of The New York Times since January 2004, covering economics, and joined the paper's editorial board in July 2007. He began his journalism career in 1990 as a financial reporter for Notimex, the Mexican news agency, in Mexico City. He was a correspondent in Tokyo (1991-1992) and in London (1992-1996). In 1996, Porter was appointed editor of the Brazilian edition of Am?rica Econom?a, a business and economics magazine based in Sao Paulo. In 2000, he became senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, based in Los Angeles, covering the Hispanic population in the United States. He is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. He has an MSc in quantum fields and fundamental forces from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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