
The Why Axis
Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
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Eric Martin
Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; whether women are really less competitive than men; and how to correctly price products and services.
Their field experiments show how economic incentives can change outcomes. Their results will change the way we both think about and take action on big and little problems, and force us to rely no longer on assumptions, but upon the evidence of what really works.
©2013 Uri Gneezy and John List; preface copyright Steven D. Levitt (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLCListeners also enjoyed...




















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Really enjoyed understanding the why
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Intriguing ideas
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Listener
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Painful to listen to Dreamscapes narration
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Insightful
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Bit outdated
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Has some interesting insights, especially in the beginning. I especially enjoyed seeing how adding monetary incentive can backfire.
However, they jump to lots of conclusions and assume correlation equals causation without considering possible other reasons. For example, they did not consider that the reason women don't improve in competitive environments versus merit-based environments because they were already doing their best. Or the value of winning was not worth straining, and this could be caused by differences in the effects of straining in women vs. men.
It also used their small studies to make a grand sweeping statement that the world would be better off with women ruling, rather than exploring what cultural influences could cause a man to be equally good or better than they saw.
I don't regret my time, and I will finish the last fourth of it, but it's got some discouraging scientific holes in some areas.
Some Interesting Insights But Poor Science
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Awfully Politically Motivated
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How did the narrator detract from the book?
I really like the content of the book and thought the authors did a good job explaining their research topics in a conversational tone. The narrator, however, performs in such a monotonic tone that it makes me question whether the book was being read by a robot more than a few times in the book. How hard would it be to read a research-based book using normal conversational tone?!Terrible performance
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