Cost, value, price : three pillars of profit -- Hidden costs -- Tradeoffs : pain versus gain -- Do you know where your costs are? -- People, knowledge, and/or machines -- From volume to variety -- Racing down the learning curve -- Markets and demand : how to listen to your customer -- Calculated risks -- Competing by cooperating.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In this book, leading economist William Barnett argues instead that there was too little use of the relevant economics, especi…
Freakononomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life. Now updated with the authors' New York Times columns and blog etries, this cul…