Author Archives: Laura Impellizzeri

“The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do” (Portfolio/Penguin Group, $27.95), by Eduardo Porter: New York Times editorial writer and longtime journalist Eduardo Porter offers an engaging rumination proving the adage that everything has its price. And he means everything: work, women, even faith and the future.

Porter explores the factors we weigh, consciously and unconsciously, in making decisions about things we don’t traditionally think of as having prices. And he shows that in every imaginable context our choices are influenced by circumstances…read more Read More