Arnold Kling at EconLog gives us a preview of Tim Harford’s new pop-econ book, The Logic of Life.
“I hated the introduction. At one point, Harford writes, ‘Might there not be such a thing as a rational blowjob?’
“I don’t think of myself as a prude, but I wound up muttering to myself about economists who think that sex is a good choice for a topic. Might there not be such a thing as diminishing returns and comparative advantage? I want the next pop economics book to be entitled The Undercover Economist Discovers That No More Sex Equals Safer Freakonomics.”
But Kling warms to the book by the later chapters on CEO pay, the joys and advantages of living in cities, and institutional economics.
In The Chronicle Review, Brad DeLong had this to say about recent pop-econ books.
