57 pages • 1 hour read
Tim HarfordThe Undercover Economist
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
What examples of scarcity have most relevance to you personally? How does that scarcity benefit or harm you, and how could economic regulations change that scarcity to more effectively benefit you as a consumer?
Is an efficient market necessarily ethical? Why or why not? Give examples that explain your position.
Self-targeting is a clever method that companies use to get consumers to provide information about themselves. What examples of self-targeting can you think of in your day-to-day life? Do they affect you negatively or positively? How could they be countered?
