Economics Is Everywhere, Fourth Edition, presents 400 vignettes inspired by everyday events from news articles, films, family and popular culture. Professor Hamermesh also employs his interactions with students, frequently featuring student insight in these short scenes. Economics Is Everywhere helps students to apply what they are learning in their introductory microeconomics courses by examining economics examples that can be found in day-to-day life. In covering topics such as opportunity costs, trade-offs, supply and demand, elasticity, competitive markets and monopoly
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Dan Hamermesh on Freakonomics
Here is a video of Dan discussing the comparative advantage that the data shows attractive people have in the work place.
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