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Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in frine white dj. Giftable. Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote for politicians who promise to spend billions to keep them out of the country. And citizens of the industrialized West pay hundreds of dollars a year in taxes or cash for someone to cart away trash that would be a valuable commodity in poorer parts of the world. 296 pp. including index.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 296 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010028526 Type of material Book Personal name Porter, Eduardo. Main title The price of everything: solving the mystery of why we pay what we do / Eduardo Porter. Published/Created New York: Portfolio Penguin, 2011. Description viii, 296 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9781591843627 1591843626 LC classification HG223. P67 2011 Summary This book starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind each choice that we make, whether we're deciding to have a baby, drive a car, or buy a book. We often fail to appreciate just how critical prices are as motivating forces shaping our lives, but their power becomes clear when distorted prices steer our decisions the wrong way. Eduardo Porter takes us on a global economic adventure, from comparing the relative prices of a vote in corrupt Sa?o Tome? and in the ostensibly aboveboard United States to assessing the cost of happiness in Bhutan to deducing the dollar value we assign to human life. He weaves together the constant--and often unconscious--cost and value assessments we all make every day. While exploring the story behind the price of everything from marriage and death to mattresses and horsemeat, Porter draws unexpected connections that bridge a wide range of disciplines and cultures. --From publisher description. Contents The price of things--The price of life--The price of happiness--The price of women--The price of work--The price of free--The price of culture--The price of faith--The price of the future. LC Subjects Value. Values. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 338.5/21 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn535490496
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