Robert H. Frank Ordre des livres (chronologique)

PrzEKONaj się cO decyduje zaMIAst Ciebie. Codzienne absurdy okiem profesora ekonomii z Uniwersytetu Cornella i jego studentów. Dlaczego mleko sprzedawane jest w sześciennych opakowaniach, a coca-cola w cylindrycznych? Co sprawia, że czarne laptopy Apple są droższe niż białe, a modelki zarabiają o wiele więcej niż modele? Czemu służą zamki w drzwiach sklepów czynnych przez całą dobę? Dlaczego guziki w ubraniach męskich są po prawej, a w kobiecych po lewej stronie? Życie pełne jest zagadek, nie zawsze przez nas uświadamianych. Znany profesor ekonomii prestiżowego amerykańskiego uniwersytetu oraz jego studenci udowadniają, że wystarczy znać tylko kilka prawideł ekonomicznych, aby zrozumieć setki absurdów, z którymi stykamy się na co dzień. Oto najlepszy kurs ekonomii dla żółtodziobów. Na wesoło i z biglem! Robert H. Frank – profesor ekonomii na Cornell University. Felietonista „The New York Times”. Autor wielu publikacji naukowych i popularnonaukowych.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank comes a revelatory exploration of social context's power and potential. Psychologists have long recognized that social environments significantly influence behavior, sometimes positively but often negatively. Notably, social influence operates both ways: our choices shape our environments. Society typically supports regulations that protect individuals from physical harm, such as smoking restrictions to shield bystanders from secondhand smoke. However, we have been slower to adopt similar measures to discourage harmful social environments, overlooking how behaviors like smoking can encourage others to smoke as well. Frank attributes this regulatory imbalance to the belief that individuals should be responsible for their actions. He argues that this belief can coexist with public policies that promote supportive social environments. Parents generally wish their children avoid becoming smokers, bullies, or problem drinkers, but these hopes diminish when such behaviors are prevalent. While the negative impacts of social behaviors are challenging to quantify, Frank insists that policymakers should not overlook them. The encouraging news is that simple policy measures could create more supportive environments without resorting to a nanny state or imposing significant sacrifices.

Microeconomics and Behaviour, third edition, is an accessible yet intellectually challenging and engaging textbook for students. It develops core analytical and technical tools and embeds them in a collection of real-world examples and applications to illuminate the power and versatility of the economic way of thinking. With this approach, students develop economic intuition and are stimulated to think more deeply about the technical tools they learn, and to find more interesting ways to apply them. This enables students to not just understand microeconomics, but to think like economists themselves, and to develop a lasting interest in the discipline. Key Features * Fully updated chapters, including new and expanded material on international labour markets, the gig economy, behavioural game theory and nudge theory. * Extensive pedagogical features such as examples, key terms and definitions, in-chapter exercises, chapter summaries, and review questions and problems. * Economic Naturalist examples that show how economic principles can be used to explain experiences and observations of everyday life. New examples include: "Why do firms benefit from the gig economy?", "Why is self-checkout becoming the norm in shops?", and "Why do online retailers have flagship stores?"

Im Rahmen von acht spannend zu lesenden Kapiteln erfährt man mehr darüber, was alles unseren Werdegang beeinflusst und wieso nicht wenige Menschen die Bedeutung von glücklichen Zufällen oft unterschätzen aber auch, weshalb diese Wahrnehmung sich letztlich nachteilig auswirkt. Helga König, 17.01.2018

After The Americans, The Lines of My Hand is arguably Robert Frank’s most important book and without doubt the publication that established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking. The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972, and this new Steidl edition, made in close collaboration with Robert Frank, follows and updates the first US edition by Lustrum Press of 1972. The Lines of My Hand is structured chronologically and presents selections from every stage of Frank’s work until 1972—from early photos in Switzerland in 1945–46, to images of his travels in Peru, Paris, Valencia, London and Wales, and to contact sheets from his 1955–56 journey through the US that resulted in The Americans and made him famous. Here too are intimate photos of Frank’s young family, later photo-collages and stills from films including Pull My Daisy (1959) and About Me: A Musical (1971). This structure itself mirrors the rhythm of Frank’s life but it is his short personal texts, like diary entries, that fully bring his voice into the book. In its original combination of text and image, its fearless self-reflection, and its insistence on photography and film as equal though different aspects of the artist’s visual language, The Lines of My Hand has become an inspiration for many photographers—not least Robert Frank himself, who continues and expands this approach in the visual diaries he makes today.

How important is luck in economic success? This question divides conservatives and liberals. Conservatives argue that those who accumulate wealth are typically talented and hardworking. Conversely, liberals point out that many equally skilled individuals struggle financially. Recent social science research reveals that chance significantly influences life outcomes more than commonly believed. The author explores how the wealthy often underestimate luck's role in their success, which ultimately harms society, including the affluent. He illustrates how winner-take-all markets amplify small initial advantages into substantial disparities over time. Despite strong evidence, misconceptions about luck persist, affecting personal and political decisions detrimentally. The author proposes that we can mitigate inequality driven by luck through simple, non-intrusive policies capable of freeing up trillions annually—sufficient to address infrastructure decay, expand healthcare, combat climate change, and reduce poverty, all without demanding sacrifices. This solution may seem unlikely, yet it requires only a few straightforward steps. The engaging narrative reveals how a clearer understanding of chance's impact can foster fairer and more prosperous economies and societies.

Because of the importance of Robert Frank’s The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United States; and because he made very different kinds of pictures when he returned to still photography in the 1970s, most of Frank’s American work of the 1950s is poorly known. This book, based on the important Frank collection at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, is the first to focus on that work. Its careful sequence of 131 plates integrates 22 photographs from The Americans with more than 100 unknown or unfamiliar images to chart the major themes and pictorial strategies of Frank’s work in the United States in the 1950s. Peter Galassi’s text presents a thorough reconsideration of Frank’s first photographic career and examines in detail how he used the full range of photography’s vital 35mm vocabulary to reclaim the medium’s artistic tradition from the hegemony of the magazines.

In 1950, Robert Frank left his job as a photographer in New York to travel through Europe with his family. That summer he arrived in Valencia, Spain, which was at the time a humble, bleak place enduring the austere conditions of the postwar period like the rest of the country. The pictures Frank took of Valencia depict the daily life of a fishing village. His portrayal is so natural and clear that further verbal explanation seems superfluous; they simply reflect, in the photo grapher’s words, “the humanity of the moment”. The photographs in this book, many of which have never been published before, allow dignity to override poverty.

Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? This title predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. It argues that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's.

Qu'est-ce qui pousse les plus riches à dépenser des sommes folles pour acquérir des objets de luxe ? Et quel est le prix de cet engouement pour les individus et pour la société ? Voilà les questions qui ont conduit Robert H. Frank à examiner le rapport entre nos habitudes de consommation et notre quête du bonheur. Psychologie évolutionniste à l'appui, il révèle que la consommation de luxe est souvent liée à des préoccupations de statut social. Si les dépenses de luxe ne font guère souffrir les plus riches, Frank démontre leur effet sur l'ensemble de la société : nos heures de travail ne cessent de s'allonger et le temps consacré à la famille ou aux amis diminue comme peau de chagrin. Tout cela pour rester dans la course. Affirmant par ailleurs que les difficultés ainsi engendrées pour la classe moyenne et les plus démunis sont imputables aux forces concurrentielles du marché, Frank plaide pour une réforme fiscale ingénieuse qui permettrait de remédier aux effets pervers de la consommation de luxe. Livre à la fois engagé et solidement ancré dans la recherche, La course au luxe séduit tant par son analyse originale des inégalités économiques que par les perspectives qu'il laisse entrevoir.