- Business, Economics, Nonfiction, Psychological aspects
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos?
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- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Tim Harford
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Random House, Random House Publishing Group, RH Audio
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400066421
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