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Description   Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic principles operate in the real world-which they do everywhere, all the time. Once you learn to think like an economist, all kinds of puzzling observations start to make sense. Drive-up ATM keypads have Braille dots because it’s cheaper to make the same machine for both drive-up and walk-up locations. Travelers from Kansas City to Orlando pay less because they are usually price-sensitive tourists with many choices of destination, whereas travelers originating from Orlando typically choose Kansas City for specific family or business reasons. The Economic Naturalist employs basic economic principles to answer scores of intriguing questions from everyday life, and, along the way, introduces key ideas such as the cost-benefit principle, the “no cash on the table” principle, and the law of one price. This is as delightful and painless a way to learn fundamental economics as there is.   Related Products... Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (Har The Match King: The Financial Genius Behind a Cen The Internet Depression: The Boom, The Bust And B The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrec Our Price: $18.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $9.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten Visions And Revisions: The United States In The G 12: The Elements of Great Managing The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, Hig Our Price: $9.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $18.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $8.37 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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