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Title: The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts ISBN: 0-262-68135-8 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Enjoyable Love Story With a Message
Comment: The Invisible Heart ia an enjoyable book to read. You care about the charcters. Sam is an experienced, strong-willed economics teacher at the exclusive Edwards School. Laura is a young, idealistic, new English teacher at the same school. As Laura and Sam talk, they clearly demonstrate two very different ways of looking at the world. Sam sees the world through the eyes of an economist with an emphasis on incentives and results. Laura views the world in terms of feelings and intentions. Can people with such different points of view find love and happiness together? He is hard headed if not hard hearted. She is soft hearted and concerned for the less fortunate. Yet, in the end, we find that Sam is no less idealistic than Laura. He is willing to risk his job, perhaps his career, for his beliefs.
Intertwined with the love story of the developing relationship between Laura and Sam is the story of Charles Krauss, a corrupt and probably criminal business executive, and the attempt of Erica Baldwin, an ambitious civil servant, to bring him to justice. Will she succeed in protecting the public? Or, will it turn out that Krauss, evil though he may be, promotes the public interest better than she merely by seeking his own self-interest?
How will the two stories come together? There is plenty of suspense and intrigue to hold the readers' attention. You are eager to learn what will happen next. The characters are well developed, and the conflicts seem real. The Invisible Heart manages to be at the same time both a tender love story and an exciting book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Learning Economics has Never Been This Enjoyable
Comment: This book was brilliant. I bought it before going on vacation and I couldn't put it down. It is a very fast read (maybe 2 or 3 hours total reading time) and taught me about 15 economic lessons that are incredibly valuable. I find myself quoting the lessons of the book constantly.
Perhaps the most valuable element of the book is that the author cleverly uses the characters to argue both sides of each economic argument. You not only learn the "right" answer, but you learn the holes in the most common arguments that are advanced by those that don't subscribe to more "free market" thinking. This should be required reading for anyone involved in business or economics.
Note that the book will be very interesting even to those marginally interested in economics as the love story is exceptionally well written and thought provoking.
Rating: 5
Summary: Catch this wave early
Comment: Read this book now to get an early taste of 21st century economics, call it "Compassionate Capitalism". It deals wisely and accurately with today's socialist based - and economically doomed - attempts to legislate equity. Not only does some of this modern legislation have a negative economic impact, it directly assails our liberties. Take Russell Roberts' antagonists and consider their argument - taking decision away from the individual leads to the Orwellian nightmare, big brother knows what is best. Our American free spirit is ultimately indomitable, the swing of the pendulum toward the far reaches of political correctness will be shrugged off by the younger generation. This book does a fine job articulating why. Enjoy the read, it is fun. It is also remarkable to see Rabbi Maimonides quoted, the 'RAMBAM' would have been proud!
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Title: The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism Updated Edition by Russell D. Roberts ISBN: 0130870528 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.60 |
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Title: A Deadly Indifference : A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons ISBN: 0691059691 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons ISBN: 0691000980 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 12 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience by Steven Landsburg ISBN: 0029177766 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons ISBN: 0345331583 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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