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Harford explained that his book explored rational choice theory applied to addiction, discrimination, crime and other seemingly illogical phenomena, and that he would not write it today.
And in fact, I wrote a whole book called The Logic of Life, which is all about the different ways in which rational choice theory could be used to understand things like addiction and discrimination,...
— Episode: #548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Cle...
Episode: #548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Di...
Harford explained that his book explored rational choice theory applied to addiction, discrimination, crime and other seemingly illogical phenomena, and that he would not write it today.
And in fact, I wrote a whole book called The Logic of Life, which is all about the different ways in which rational choice theory could be used to understand things like addiction and discrimination, crime, all kinds of things that don't seem to have any logic.