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Steven E Landsburg

Disciplines:
economics
writing
culture/contrarianism
university of rochester

Summary

American economist — University of Rochester — author of The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex — who applies economic logic to provocative questions to reveal counterintuitive conclusions.

Core Contribution

Creates the provocateur economic logic book — Landsburg's method (apply economic principles rigorously to their logical conclusion regardless of how counterintuitive the result) makes visible the assumptions embedded in conventional moral reasoning.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Armchair Economist

Fair Play

More Sex Is Safer Sex

The Big Questions

Historical Influences

Gary Becker Milton Friedman

Intellectual Lineage

University of Rochester The Armchair Economist More Sex Is Safer Sex

Contemporaries & Peers

Tyler Cowen Bryan Caplan

Minds Influenced

Contrarian economics genre

Intellectual Posterity

The Armchair Economist More Sex Is Safer Sex

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