Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist

Schelling, Thomas, C.

ISBN 10: 0674127706 / ISBN 13: 9780674127708

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984

About this Item

Some slight edgewear to the boards. Slight browning to the page edges but the pages are clean and unmarked. The price-clipped jacket has a half inch closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, another smaller tear to the top left corner of the front panel and some light chipping to the edges and corners. First printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674127706
• ISBN 13: 9780674127708
• Binding: Original Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A political economist examines the subject of ambiguous rationality in relation to such phenomena as nuclear terrorism, blackmail, euthanasia, and daydreaming and discusses the ethical issues of policy

From the Back Cover

Thomas Schelling is a political economist 'conspicuous for wandering' --an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as some as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.