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- Allows students to understand challenging economic concepts by relating them to everyday life
- Offers accessible ideas that help launch into economic thinking
- Seeks to engage students and general readers by a conversational tone
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About the author
Sanders teaches courses in sports economics and sport analytics at Syracuse University and also serves as a player analytics consultant to professional and NCAA basketball teams. In his teaching, Sanders enjoys the challenge of reducing complex ideas into their simplest elements, then building those ideas back up for students in a relatable manner. Moreover, hebelieves that economics literacy could be much greater in contemporary societies toward the betterment of humanity and that it is partly the role of economics professors to help realize this potential.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economic Reason
Book Subtitle: A Piecemeal Guide to Your Inner Homo Economicus
Authors: Shane Sanders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56043-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56042-3Published: 15 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56045-4Published: 16 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56043-0Published: 14 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 133
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Game Theory