April 7, 2008
The Logic of Life at the RSA
Tomorrow evening I’m speaking about my new book at the RSA in central London, with Stephanie Flanders. Details:
The Logic of Life
Lecture | 08 April 2008 18:00 | National
Speakers: Tim Harford, Stephanie Flanders
Location: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
Booking Status: Open
Join Tim Harford, award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, as he looks at the logic behind the seemingly irrational.Chair: Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics Editor
In his new book, The Logic of Life, Harford argues that under the surface of everyday insanity, incentives are at work. Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? But many people comply with economic logic, always taking account of future costs and benefits, even if they don’t quite realise it.
Book here, it’s FREE.
I’ll be there!
Posted by: Geoff | April 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am | Report this comment