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THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, whether we should build more prisons, and whether a city like New Orleans can recover from disaster. THE LOGIC OF LIFE introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep. The book starts with the most intimate decisions - to have sex, to take drugs, to lead an honest life - then zooms out to discuss the logic of the family, of neighbourhoods, large corporations, cities themselves. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was ....
After 77 years in one family, Syracuse’s oldest fish fry is closing Updated Apr 06, 2021; Posted Apr 06, 2021 Owner Bill Easterly at Jim s Fish Fry on Wolf Street in 2014, when the place was 70 years old.Don Cazentre Facebook Share After 77 years, it looks like 2021 is the last hurrah for the Easterly family at Jim’s Fish Fry. Jim’s, at 1248 Wolf St. across from the Crouse-Hinds plant, will serve its last fish on Friday, April 16. It’s listed for sale as a “turnkey” restaurant operation. It has been run by the Easterly family since 1944. That likely makes it the oldest specialty fish fry certainly the oldest in one family in the immediate Syracuse area. It was one of the places that made haddock a Central New York tradition, especially on Fridays in Lent. ....
Illustration by Tim Robinson. “To the memory of Christopher Columbus,” reads the inscription to the large Columbus Fountain in Washington, D.C., “whose high faith and indomitable courage gave to mankind a New World.” The monument was erected in 1912, and one cringes reading those words now. Columbus did not give mankind a New World. As the statue of the Native American man kneeling by Columbus’s side suggests, that world was already fully possessed by humanity. Books in Review By Sonia Shah Nearly everywhere European “discoverers” sailed, in fact, they met people who had discovered those lands long before them. The Americas had already been discovered; so had Australia and New Zealand and the Arctic North. Even seemingly remote Pacific islands were inhabited by the time Europeans arrived. It’s bracing to realize just how few truly empty places European sailors found “islands and ice, mostly,” according to the Yale cartographer Bill Rankin. ....