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Exploring profound philosophical questions, the author utilizes mathematics, economics, and physics to delve into concepts of reality, knowledge, existence, and ethics. With a lively approach, he encourages readers to confront the fundamental mysteries of life, examining the nature of reality and the principles guiding our choices. This engaging work invites readers to reflect on their understanding of existence and the philosophical underpinnings that shape human experience.

Witty economists are about as easy to find as anorexic mezzo-sopranos, natty mujahedeen, and cheerful Philadelphians. But Steven E. Landsburg...is one economist who fits the bill. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet, the University of Rochester professor valiantly turns the discussion of vexing economic questions into an activity that ordinary people might enjoy. -- Joe Queenan, The Wall Street Journal The Armchair Economist is a wonderful little book, written by someone for whom English is a first (and beloved) language, and it contains not a single graph or equation...Landsburg presents fascinating concepts in a form easily accessible to noneconomists. -- Erik M. Jensen, The Cleveland Plain Dealer ...enormous fun from its opening page...Landsburg has done something extraordinary: He has expounded basic economic principles with wit and verve. -- Dan Seligman, Fortune

Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author and professor of economics, dares you to try.

In the wake of his enormously popular books "The Armchair Economist "and "More Sex Is Safer Sex," Slate columnist and economics professor Steven Landsburg employs concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics in this sprightly tour of the deepest problems in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? Why is there something instead of nothing? And how should we live?Beginning with the broadest philosophical issues--theories of existence, knowledge, and ethics--Landsburg then turns to a dazzling variety of specific applications. He gives us a mathematical analysis for arguments for the existence of God; explains the real meanings of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Godel's incompleteness theorem; and carefully dissects the meaning of social responsibility on the playground, in the marketplace, and in the voting booth. Stimulating, illuminating, and always surprising, "The Big Questions "reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.

In the tradition of Freakonomics, the author of The Armchair Economist presents a series of stunning arguments that turn everyday life on its head.

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'...świetna zabawa od pierwszej strony... Landsburg dokonał czegoś nadzwyczajnego: wyjaśnił podstawowe prawa ekonomii z humorem i werwą'. Dan Seligman, FORTUNE