1 The Economist as Parent and the Parent as Economist - Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life by Steven E. Landsburg - #sceltedifficili #tolleranzaecompassioneipannialtrui #esperimentodelcarrello #caèirecomesicapisce #lalinguadelcortilechiariscetutto #
1 The Economist as Parent and the Parent as EconomistRead more at location 89
Note: Se sei un genitore sei un economista. L"economia riguarda le scelte difficili. Praticandola scopri quante variabili entrano in gioco e diventi + tollerante... L'economia allena la compassione. Perchè i carrelli della spesa sono oggi + grandi che ieri? Devi metterti nei panni di una famiglia tipo per scoprirlo... A volte questioni complesse diventano magicamente semplici quando spiegate al proprio figlio. Talmente semplici che le impara meglio anche il genitore. Un'occasione da nn perdere.. Edit
If you’re a parent, then you’re an economics teacher. Economics is about facing difficult choices:Read more at location 100
One of the great lessons of economics is that there is no single best way to resolve such choices; everything depends on circumstances;Read more at location 104
Economics is the science of tolerance. Good economics professors teach their students that people can live very differently than youRead more at location 105
Economics breeds not just tolerance but compassion. The economist’s method is to observe behavior closely, the better to understand other people’s goalsRead more at location 107
On the first day of class, I ask my students to tell me why today’s grocery shoppers demand larger cartsRead more at location 110
Today’s working women can’t shop every week the way their mothers did; they (or their husbands) must stock up more on each infrequent trip. Or: Today’s working women can’t cook dinner for the entire family as their mothers did; instead they buy enough food so that mom, dad, and the kids can all fend for themselves. Or: Today’s wealthier families serve a greater variety of dishes at each meal. Or: Today’s wealthier shoppers are willing to pay higher grocery prices for luxuries like wide aisles and the carts those aisles can accommodate. Or: Today’s larger houses provide more storage space in the pantry. Or: Today’s ubiquitous ATM machines mean that shoppers are no longer constrained by their unwillingness to carry lots of cash.Read more at location 111
One student says that today’s shoppers buy more because advertising techniques have become more effective.Read more at location 117
The point of the exercise is not to understand shopping carts; it’s to understand the technique of understanding. To succeed at this game, students must be sensitive to the problems of familiesRead more at location 119
Learning to see the world through someone else’s eyes is an essential part of economic training; it’s also an essential part of growing up.Read more at location 120
Sometimes issues that seem murky and difficult in the language of the classroom become clear and simple in the language of the living room,Read more at location 143
This suggests that parents and economists have a lot to teach each other
