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Ce carte citesc acum

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Merge o leapsa prin bloguri legat de carti, am primit-o din vreo doua parti, fie. Leapsa spune asa:

1. Ia cartea care este cea mai aproape de tine.
2. Deschide-o la pagina 123.
3. Gaseste a 5-a propozitie/fraza.
4. Posteaza pe blog textul urmatoarelor 4 propozitii/fraze cu aceste instructiuni.
5. Nu îndrazni sa scotocesti prin rafturi dupa cartea aceea foarte deosebita sau “intelectuala”.

“For example, the time spent in consuming, tc, would still tend to decline with age, reach a trough before the peak wage rate age, and then increase, and the time path of goods would still depend on the interest rate, and the elasticities of substitution in consumption and production. Two significant differences are, first, that the path of the wage rate is no longer given, but is determined by the path of the endogenous, variable Ei. The wage rate would reach a peak before, at, or after the peah in alphai as Ei peaked before, at, or after alphai. Second, the behaviour of tw is no longer simply the complement of the behaviour of tc, since tw also depends on tc, which is determined by equation (51).”

Nu, nu am cautat o carte intelectuala :-). Este Gary S. Becker, The Economic Approach To Human Behavior, o carte pe care o citesc dupa ce am inceput sa ma gandesc serios la care o fi suportul teoretic din spatele speculatiilor din carti precum Freakonomics sau The Tipping Point. Well, cartea asta are suportul ala teoretic (pe langa niste esee fascinante despre crima, mortalitate, natalitate, casatorie, timp liber sau discriminare, toate privite din puncte de vedere economice).