The Thinking Essence of Lan Xiaohuan, a Popular Economist

1, about show-off: In the show-off culture of different races in the world, China people are the most distinctive, and two words can accurately summarize the economic analysis about show-off. "Night tour brocade" and "poverty", the purpose of wearing brocade is to show you and get satisfaction from it. I am so embarrassed because I am poor, but more importantly.

2, we must judge a book by its cover: a beautiful face, like a prestigious diploma, does not necessarily represent the ability behind it, but it is a very useful and reliable signal. When you see a prestigious diploma, you know that there is hard work and talent behind it, all of which are potential values; And when I see a beautiful face, I know that there are more complicated experiences and richer social experiences behind it, which is also potential value. So if it's okay to judge people by appearances, what's wrong with judging people by appearances?

People usually think that economics can only calculate very small things, but the most important and precious things in this world can't be calculated, such as life and love. I find it hard to accept this concept, because its logic seems to say that you should be careful in buying food, but you should be extravagant at all costs in buying a house. The more important things are, the more you have to calculate clearly. In order to save your brain power, let's leave the rare confusion to small things.

4. Handsome and rich: Handsome represents excellent genes, while rich represents more resources and environmental protection in the process of raising future generations and women's lives. Who doesn't like such a good thing? What man doesn't want to be handsome and rich? It is lucky to be one of the two, and it is almost unimaginable to touch both; If you can only choose one, or a handsome guy with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, or a middle-aged man with a pot-bellied baldness and a pockmarked face and an annual income of one million, which do you think women prefer? The reality and observation of life make it impossible for us to evaluate that handsome guy. Ordinary people may say that women love money, but in the eyes of economists, this contrast just shows the value of "handsome" in women's eyes. Handsome is very important and valuable. If an ugly man wants to hit a handsome guy, his income will be higher than a little. On the other hand, in the competition to attract men, it is very unlikely that an ugly middle-aged and old woman with an annual salary of one million will want to beat a beautiful woman with a monthly income of three thousand or even no income.

Sociological experiments show that in attracting women, the top collocation is not "handsome and rich", but "rich but not vulgar". I have to mention the "sense of security" that a woman generally emphasizes and pursues, that is, being rich and not ugly. The key is to have a rock-solid relationship with me and love me only forever, which is a bit anti-human fantasy. Perhaps this sense of security is hard to find in the world, which leads to the dilemma of older women.

5. Monogamy and polygamy: In a society with unfair wealth distribution (at present, most countries are in the stage of unfair wealth distribution, except for countries like Dubai and Brunei, of course), the biggest victim of polygamy is single men with no money. If Ah Q wants to sleep with Oh Mom, I'm afraid he will take the risk of revolution. Monogamy is just a legal system and a paper control, which can't control the economic laws behind it: rich people in cities keep mistresses, and young people in rural areas are single; If you can't marry several people at the same time, divorce several times more; Or simply don't get married, make a friend and then change friends. Think about these things carefully. Which is not economics?

6. Great cause of building the United States: In 2006-07, China accounted for 10% of doctoral students trained in the United States, not counting Chinese Americans born in China, Chinese Americans born in the United States or the second generation of immigrants. Hollywood should make a tribute film for us, called Building America. In our National Day military parade, if we arrange a "talent phalanx" to gather all the world-famous scientists born in China, it will definitely be a large phalanx, a large phalanx of foreign experts. There is only one thing to learn here, that is, "the close social network and scientific research atmosphere in the United States have a great influence on the productivity of scientific researchers."

7. Expert opinion: Experts who speak for the poor are as shameful as those who speak for the rich. Experts who speak for the government are as immoral as those who speak for the people. A real expert only speaks for his own professional knowledge, only for the facts he firmly believes and the logic of the subject. As long as an expert makes a judgment based on facts, scientific logic and his own professional knowledge, no matter whether he is right or wrong afterwards, he has not lied to his major. For people who don't know the truth, it is difficult to judge whether the expert's opinion is correct, but there is a standard that can be used, which is a necessary condition for judgment: "Any professional knowledge should be expressed like this: under what conditions, what will happen; Under other conditions, this may not happen. "

8. The expression of gender differences in quarrel language: When men think and speak, the first angle is the hierarchical view from top to bottom, while when women think and speak, the first angle is the parallel view of closeness. There are many stories that can be exemplified. Just think about them in daily life.