The armchair economist: economics & everyday life: revised and updated for the 21st century<\/a> \/Steven E. Landsburg. <\/strong>Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The ‘obvious’ answer is that the owner has a monopoly, but if that were the whole story, there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop and prices skyrocket, journalists point to the ‘obvious’ exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power, they’d have raised prices before the frost. Why don’t concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction and others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why don’t firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong, reveals better answers, and illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar, filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s a list of titles added to the collection in the past week. \u00a0Bivocational and beyond: educating for thriving multivocational ministry \/edited by Darryl W. Stephens. 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\u00a0Bivocational and beyond: educating for thriving multivocational ministry<\/a> \/edited by Darryl W. Stephens. <\/strong>Bivocational and Beyond<\/em> provides a wide range of perspectives on faith, leadership, and learning to equip pastors and theological educators for a future in which multivocational ministry may become the norm.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2022\/05\/submission_46_37_coverImage_en_US_t.jpg?resize=100%2C150\")
\u00a0Challenging bias against women academics in religion<\/a> \/edited by Colleen D. Hartung. <\/strong>Challenging Bias Against Women Academics in Religion<\/em> presents biographies about women in academia who study, research, and teach about the world’s religious and spiritual traditions. It addresses the question of why so many women academics, who are themselves producers of secondary sources, are absent as biographical subjects in secondary literature generally and on digital knowledge platforms specifically. Authors variously challenge the exclusionary assumptions that underlie systemic bias in the production of secondary and tertiary sources about women. This critical engagement disrupts sourcing and writing conventions that support and perpetuate bias and creates the opportunity for more expansive and inclusive biographical narratives about women.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2022\/05\/6748814-l.jpg?resize=100%2C155\")
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