{"id":371,"date":"2008-05-17T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2023-10-10T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:18:00","slug":"the-logic-of-life-is-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/the-logic-of-life-is-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"The Logic of Life is Fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Logic of Life<\/em> is Tim Hartford\u2019s second book following his fantastic <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fabricegrinda.com\/read-the-undercover-economist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Undercover Economist<\/a><\/em>. In this book he tackles why so many things that are seemingly irrational are actually the logical result of the underlying incentives people face.<\/p>\n<p>He takes us through an entertaining variety of topics covering elections, marriage, sex, workplace compensation, addictions and much more! Note that some of the chapters make for a somewhat depressing read, but that\u2019s to be expected given that the book explains why it is logical to end up with many of the negative outcomes we observe.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy the book at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Logic-Life-Rational-Economics-Irrational\/dp\/1400066425\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1211049034&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Logic-Life-Rational-Economics-Irrational\/dp\/1400066425\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1211049034&amp;sr=8-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Logic of Life is Tim Hartford\u2019s second book following his fantastic The Undercover Economist. In this book he tackles why so many things that are seemingly irrational are actually &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"The Logic of Life is Fascinating. Categories - Books. Date-Posted - 2008-05-17T13:41:24 . The Logic of Life is Tim Hartford\u2019s second book following his fantastic The Undercover Economist. In this book he tackles why so many things that are seemingly irrational are actually the logical result of the underlying incentives people face.\n He takes us through an entertaining variety of topics covering elections, marriage, sex, workplace compensation, addictions and much more! Note that some of the chapters make for a somewhat depressing read, but that\u2019s to be expected given that the book explains why it is logical to end up with many of the negative outcomes we observe.\n You can buy the book at:\n http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Logic-Life-Rational-Economics-Irrational\/dp\/1400066425\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1211049034&amp;sr=8-1\n ","Category":["Books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21626,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/21626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}