Economist Undercover

The economy is a science of who receives what and why. In a well-known and fascinating book, part of the exposure, part of the User Guide - the insightful Columnist Financial Times breaks the veil of mystery from how money is working in the modern world.
Starting from the price of a cup of coffee and ending with why efficiency is not always the answer to the search for a fair society, from improving healthcare to solving traffic problems - all these tricks and secrets delightly exposes the economist under cover.
Harford is elegantly clarifies such difficult to understand the idea, like pricing along the demand curve and game theory, using examples from real life. The book appeals to the economic theory of the free market, and Harford shows how companies, from Amazon.com to Whole Foods and Starbucks, inflate consumers with the help of partisan pricing techniques, and explains the high rental cost (having a greater attitude to agriculture than you can imagine ).
A simple language illuminates complex economic theories. It will undoubtedly be interesting to readers interested in understanding how the strength of the free market work. Examples given by the author are sometimes entertaining, sometimes prophetic - will force you twice to think before drinking a cup of coffee