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# The Why Axis

**Brand:** john listuri gneezy
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    One of the best popular economics book in years
  

*by K***H on 10 May 2015*









  
  
    John List is surely a candidate for the Nobel Prize, and this is a very fine, accessible summary of his work with Uri Gneezy. List did field experiments before they became cool, and some of the results (particularly in a tour de force study on paying kids to study with future Clark medalist Roland Fryer) are stunning. The book is also a model of simple, no-frills writing that is rather uncommon in academia.Outside Daniel Kahneman's seminal "Thinking, Fast and Slow", this is one of the best popular economics books in years, better than Levitt-Duber, better than Landsburg, better than Harford. Read it.
  


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    now,WHY this book is for ?!!!
  

*by P***I on 23 April 2015*









  
  
    I WAS LISTENING AUDIO BOOK - THIS IS AN IDIOTIC BOOK,NOT WORTH A PENNY - THINGS WHICH ARE OBVIOUS ARE SHOWN AS "EXTENSIVE" EXPERIMENTS... PROLONGED, PUSHED AS BUNCH OF REPETITIVE ENGLISH LINES..
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good book
  

*by K***N on 25 January 2016*









  
  
    I really like this book because the authors are very creative scholars and the world needs more field experiments. Here are my two major drawbacks to the book.1. If the purpose of the book was to "feature" their own research, then they did a good job. If the purpose was to propose answers to the questions they raised, then they did a pretty lousy job. They ignore tons of other research (some of it experimental) done by scholars in other fields. How many people did they name besides a few co-authors? I'm sure it was less than 10. Even if the purpose of the book was to demonstrate the value of field experiments, there are lots of them out there that should have been acknowledged. Otherwise it sounds like they're saying "Have no fear world! Economists (from Chicago, no less) have arrived to solve your problems." And this is really the root of the problem: behavioral economists tend to ignore the huge amounts of work done in other fields by other people. Maybe their academic papers acknowledge them, but if you read books like this one or Freakonomics or Nudge, then you would never know of social scientists who have spent decades studying human behavior.2. Maybe this is addressed in their academic papers, but they never mention one huge threat to internal validity. In the educational experiments, how many people know about the experiment and who's in what condition? When parents find out that their child is in the "control" condition (or any other condition) how does that affect their behavior and the children's behavior? In other words, field experiments are great, but doing a truly double blind experiment is often impossible. It would have been nice to at least mention this problem.But still a book worth reading.
  


## Frequently Bought Together

- The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
- Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics

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