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The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
Written by Uri Gneezy and John List
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Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; whether women are really less competitive than men; and how to correctly price products and services. Their field experiments show how economic incentives can change outcomes. Their results will change the way we both think about and take action on big and little problems, and force us to rely no longer on assumptions, but upon the evidence of what really works.
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URI GNEEZY is the Atkinson/Epstein endowed chair in behavioural economics and professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. Before joining the Rady School, Gneezy was a faculty member at the University of Chicago, and at the Israeli universities Technion and Haifa.
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Reviews for The Why Axis
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The economics of why humans do what they do. Passionate? Some people certainly think so. This is a very interesting book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Provides a world of great insights from an economists point of view into discrimination, education, incentives and how we respond to them among other things. Goes on to offer a variety of wonderful ideas toward bettering the world overall in these areas and more.