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"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for…
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1 author picked Economic Fables as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
One of the world’s leading microeconomic scholars presents in this fascinating book brilliant insights about economic theory and its role in public policy.
Rubinstein challenges several central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can and should play in society at large. The book presents economic theory through a series of fables.
The stories provide the basic insights of economics, but also enables us to critically evaluate the effect of implicit assumptions on the predictive power of economic theory and its moral implications.
From Eyal's list on ethics and economics.
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