WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird

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Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world’s weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, “WTF?!” Do you know that “preowned” wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today, in Liberia, accused criminals on occasion drink poison to resolve their fate? How about the truth that, for 250 years, Italy criminally prosecuted cockroaches and crickets? Do you wonder why? Then this tour is just for you!

Join WTF?!‘s cast of colorful characters as they navigate the museum, led by guide and economist Peter T. Leeson. From one exhibit to the next, you can overhear Leeson’s riotous exchanges with the patrons and learn to use economic thinking to reveal the hidden sense at the back of seemingly senseless human behavior―including your own. Leeson shows that far from “irrational” or “accidents of history,” humanity’s most outlandish rituals are ingenious solutions to pressing problems―developed by clever people, driven by incentives, and tailor-made for their time and place. Are you able to deal with getting schooled by the extraordinary? Better hurry, the tour is about to start!

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