Radi se o knjizi Stivena Lendsburga More Sex is Safer Sex. Prethodne dve knjige koje sam pročitao, Fair Play i Armchair Economist su prosto sjajne i uopšte ne sumnjam da će i nova biti odlična.
Fair Play (sa zanimljivim podnaslovom - What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life) se pored ekonomskih, bavi i drugim pitanjima, poput pravde, pravednosti, tolerancije, a poslednje poglavlje se zove Advice to an Economists' Daughter. Ovde ću navesti nekoliko zanimljivih saveta, u skraćenom izdanju:
1. If you are not making mistakes, you are not taking enough risks... If you never miss your plane, you're spending too much time in airports.
2. Beware of those who tell you to eat natural food... Natural foods are derived from creatures who have survived the natural selection, where it's an advantage to be deadly. Artificial foods have survived in the marketplace, where it's an advantage to be nourishing.
3. Surf the Internet... Let's be honest - access to pornography is not a part of the costs of the Internet, it's one of the benefits.
4. Don't make a mistake of marrying the best possible husband, anymore than you would make the mistake of buying the best possible car.... A perfect husband is a costly extravagance. Most costly extravagances turn out to be mistakes.
Naravno, profesor Lendsburg je liberal i evo šta o tome kaže: "One of the great joys of being a libertarian economist is that libertarianism and economic analysis are so frequently in harmony—as a general rule, freedom tends to promote the fulfillment of human desires."
S vremena na vreme piše i kolumnu Everyday Economist za Slate. Obavezno pogledajte.
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