@booklet {kalai-eacs2008,
	title = {Economics and Common Sense},
	howpublished = {Discussion Papers},
	year = {2008},
	month = {5},
	abstract = {A review of Steven E. Landsburg{\textquoteright}s book More Sex is Safer Sex, the Unconventional Wisdom of Economics. The surprise 2005 best seller Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner launched a small genre of books by economists applying economic reasoning to everyday life and finding counterintuitive results. Mathematician and economist Steven Landsburg, whose online Slate column {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Everyday Economics predates the Levitt and Dubner volume, has now collected and expanded some of those columns to form the basis of his new book.In his book, Landsburg uses the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}weapons of evidence and logic, especially the logic of economics to draw surprising conclusions which run against common sense. {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}If your common sense tells you otherwise, says Landsburg, {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}remember that common sense also tells you the Earth is flat. In this review, scheduled to appear in the June/July 2008 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, we describe and discuss some of the issues and claims raised in Landsburg{\textquoteright}s book. For further discussion see the May 29 post in http://gilkalai.wordpress.com/ .},
	url = {/files/dp485.pdf},
	author = {Gil Kalai}
}
