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Rush:Why We Thrive In the Rat Race
[Paperback - 2012]
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Category: Sociology
Sub-category: Sociology
Additional Category: Self Improvement - Psychology
Publisher: Plume | ISBN: 9780452297951 | Pages: 304
Shipping Weight: .254 | Dimensions: 5.4 x .7 x 8 inches

Relaxation makes us stupid.

You think that downtime will make you happy. You may even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd Buchholz—a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, hedge fund director, and co-producer of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit show—wants you to know that you’re wrong. It’s the race that delivers the rush. So forget about retirement, zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner; human beings are hard-wired to compete. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitive—yet wholly convincing—conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, it’s what we love and need.

A well-known American economist and a former senior economic advisor at the White House, Buchholz holds advanced degrees from Cambridge University and Harvard, where he won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize. Buchholz is known for being on the short list for Federal Reserve considerations in 2006. He frequently writes for newspapers such asThe New York TimesandThe Wall Street Journal,in addition to appearing as a commentator onNBC, CNBC, Fox News,andPBS.His books have been translated into over 15 languages.Buchholz resides primarily in San Diego, California, but travels around the world speaking to various companies, including Microsoft and Citibank, about the worldwide economic issues. Buchholz is involved in several business, real estate, and design companies, including Wetamorph and the Two Oceans Fund. He is one of the founding producers ofJersey Boys.

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