dan also can't recommend it as a whole because it says there are 
situations where payment rules actually *don't* work as incentives :-P


On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Daniel Reeves wrote:

> GIYF.  (or, in my case, your enemy (not really))
>
> (To make sense of the above, try search.yahoo.com)
>
> I haven't listened to the NPR interview yet but I'm reading Discover Your 
> Inner Economist and I can't recommend it as a whole (too much hand waving and

> rambling) but there are some smart things in it.  Like good advice about 
> giving to charity.
>
> Freakonomics, on the other hand, is a must-read.
>
>
> --- \/   FROM Eva Revesz AT 07.08.07 22:21 (Yesterday)   \/ ---
>
>> This may be a dumb question, but who's Tyler Cowen?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "bethany soule"  
>>> To: improvetheworld Æ umich.edu
>>> Subject: tyler cowen
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:19:11 -0400
>>> 
>>> Tyler Cowen is being interviewed tomorrow (2007.08.07) on the Leonard
>>> Lopate show. Presumably they'll talk about his new book _Discover Your
>>> Inner Economist_.
>>> 
>>> You can hear it at 12noon on wnyc.org, or if you don't want to
>>> potentially listen to the whole show, you can wait until after the
>>> show is over and grab just the Tyler Cowen segment at:
>>> 
>>> http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/08
>>> 
>>> Bethany
>>> 
>>> (lopate also interviewed the guy who reads the harry potter books last
>>> week I think it was. that was pretty fun.)
>> 
>
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