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The best £4.79 you will spend this summer
30th March 2008
Robert Frank’s book “The Economic Naturalist” is published in paperback in the UK this month and is available for £4.79 from Amazon. Full of really interesting economic enigmas, I have used it on several occasions with my students and the feedback has been superb. He was featured in the Independent on Friday - here is the link to the article.
It’s economics stupid: How money explains everything: Supply, demand and market forces are not just academic buzzwords – they’re all around us, influencing everything from fridge-freezers to sex appeal. Robert H Frank, an Ivy League professor who brought the study of cost-benefit solutions to America’s masses, explains how cold, hard cash really does make our world go round.