Wtf?! : An Economic Tour of the Weird.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
Cover -- Tour Stops -- Waiting in the Lobby -- 1. Your Favorite Acronym -- 2. Burn, Baby, Burn -- 3. FSBO: Like-New, Preowned Wife -- 4. Public Uses for Private Parts -- 5. God Damn -- 6. Chicken, Please -- Hold the Poison -- 7. Jiminy Cricket's Journey to Hell -- 8. Fighting Solves Everything -- Comment Cards -- Tour Sponsors and Supporters -- Appendix (for Nerds) -- Notes (for Naysayers) -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
WTF?! is an interactive tour of the world's weirdest social practices that uses economic thinking to reveal the solid logic behind their seeming senselessness.
9781503604490
Manners and customs. Economics. Rational choice theory.