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38076 |
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BD-DhAAL |
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20221101163018.0 |
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220313t20121993nyu 000 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2011051923 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781471101311 (paperback) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781451651737 (softcover) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780029177754 (hardcover) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9781416587255 (ebook) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
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BD-DhAAL |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HM35 |
| Item number |
.L35 2012 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306.3 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Landsburg, Steven E., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1954- |
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46888 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The armchair economist : |
| Remainder of title |
economics and everyday life / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Steven E. Landsburg. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Free Press trade paperback edition. |
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| Edition statement |
Revised and updated edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 316 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- What life is all about -- The power of incentives : how seat belts kill -- Rational riddles : why U2 concerts sell out -- Truth or consequences : how to split a check or choose a movie -- The indifference principle : who cares if the air is clean? -- The computer game of life : learning what it's all about -- Good and evil -- Telling right from wrong : the pitfalls of democracy -- Why taxes are bad : the logic of efficiency -- Why prices are good : smith versus darwin -- Of medicine and candy, trains and sparks : economics in the courtroom -- How to read the news -- Choosing sides in the drug war : how the atlantic monthly got it wrong -- The mythology of deficits -- The idiot file : spurious wisdom from the internet -- How statistics lie : unemployment can be good for you -- The policy vice : do we need more illiterates? -- Some modest proposals : the end of bipartisanship -- How markets work -- Why popcorn costs more at the movies, and why the obvious answer is wrong -- Courtship and collusion : the mating game -- Cursed winners and glum losers : why life is full of disappointments -- Random walks and stock market prices : a primer for investors -- Ideas of interest : armchair forecasting -- The iowa car crop -- The pitfalls of science -- Was einstein credible? : the economics of the scientificc method -- New improved football how economists go wrong -- The pitfalls of religion -- Why i am not an environmentalist: the science of economics versus the religion -- Of ecology -- Appendix. |
| 526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE |
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BIGD |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economics |
| General subdivision |
Sociological aspects. |
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46889 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social sciences. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
52129 |
| 852 ## - LOCATION/CALL NUMBER |
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| Location |
Ayesha Abed Library |
| Shelving location |
Akbar Ali Khan Collection |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
