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Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; KCA; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not a hard science, at least it is the "queen of the social sciences." It is, therefore, intuitively obvious, that intuition and economics are as if oil and water. The problem is, what is intuitively obvious is not always correct. And, there are two major reasons why intuition and economics are not like oil and water. First, economics concerns itself with decision making, and decisions are made in the brain. The human brain is the size of a ... Read more
As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not a hard science, at least it is the "queen of the social sciences." It is, therefore, intuitively obvious, that intuition and economics are as if oil and water. The problem is, what is intuitively obvious is not always correct. And, there are two major reasons why intuition and economics are not like oil and water. First, economics concerns itself with decision making, and decisions are made in the brain. The human brain is the size of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Birkhauser Boston Inc United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461498889
SKU
V9781461498889
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