Who Gets What – and Why

[abp:0544705289:c:alignright]Author: Alvin E. Roth Rating: [rating: 4.5/5] There are a lot of competitive situations in our daily lives, from school admission and lawyer employment to kidney, in many cases, various limitations prevent the partitioners from accessing the necessary information to help them make the right decisions or exchanging the resources…

More Sex Is Safer Sex

[abp:1416532226:c:alignright]Author: Steven E. Landsburg Rating: [rating: 4.5/5] Landsburg sets out to challenge reader's views on many "common senses" through economical cost-benefit analysis. Many of topics touch hot-buttons of social, environment and economic issues, and the solution are often counterintuitive. Some of the ideas seem crazy, but the reader should keep…

Simplexity

[abp:B0023RSZR8:c:alignright]Author: Jeffrey Kluger Rating: [rating: 1/5] The subtitle of the book reads, "Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)". It sounds appealing. Indeed, many things become overly complicated just because they are not handled properly. If the book could shed some light on how…