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Steven E. Landsburg

Steven E. Landsburg
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Steven E. Landsburg

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy. His current research is in the area of quantum game theory. He blogs daily at www.TheBigQuestions.com. For over ten years, he wrote the monthly "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written regularly for Forbes and occasionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a... Read full bio

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Excerpt 1 from The Armchair Economist (revised and updated May 2012)
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Fair Play
Oct 23, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Armchair Economist
Oct 14, 2012
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Chapter 1 from The Armchair Economist (revised and updated May 2012)
May 08, 2012
Armchair Economist will be released on May 01, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 01, 2012
Armchair Economist is now available in Trade Paperback
May 01, 2012
Fair Play will be released on June 21, 2011 in eBook
Jun 21, 2011
Fair Play is now available in eBook
Jun 21, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Fair Play
May 28, 2011
The Big Questions will be released on October 19, 2010 in
Oct 19, 2010
The Big Questions is now available in
Oct 19, 2010
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Chapter 1 from Fair Play
Nov 14, 2009
The Big Questions is now available in
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The Big Questions will be released on November 03, 2009 in
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More Sex Is Safer Sex will be released on April 01, 2008 in
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Jamestown Post-Journal, July 20, 2012
...him into one of today's icons. Other titles are: "Aleppo Codex" by Matti Friedman "Armchair Economist" by Steven E. Landsburg "As Texas Goes" by Gail Collins "Barron's PSAT/NMSQT" Book of Psychic Symbols by Melanie Barnum "Complete Tracker" by Len...
Economic logic in prose
TheStar.com.my, June 22, 2012
...Title: The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life Author: Steven E. Landsburg Publisher: Free Press THE Stevens are good at making economics easy. They have a knack of linking this counter-intuitive and complex field of study to everyday life, and...
The more your employer snoops, the more valuable you're likely to be
DNA India, August 13, 2012
...they think that the financial world is coming to an end. But that is not the case with Steven E Landsburg, a professor of economics at the University of Rochester in the US, where students recently elected him Professor of the Year. Nearly 20 years back,...
Economic logic in prose
TheStar.com.my, June 22, 2012
...Title: The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life Author: Steven E. Landsburg Publisher: Free Press THE Stevens are good at making economics easy. They have a knack of linking this counter-intuitive and complex field of study to everyday life, and...