Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Alan Wolfe's Economic Essay in The New Republic

2nd\NE Quadrant: The Approval Matrix


Alan Wolfe's exhaustive essay on behavioral economics, Hedonic Man The new economics and the pursuit of happiness, in which he reviews the following books can be read here:
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HAPPINESS: A REVOLUTION IN ECONOMICS (MUNICH LECTURES IN ECONOMICS)
By Bruno S. Frey
(MIT Press, 240 pp., $35)

PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS
By Dan Ariely
(HarperCollins, 280 pp., $25.95)

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