Yes that’s right! Our new book still hasn’t been released!

So anyway, we figured the best way to keep every up to date would be to just shoot you an email once it is out. Then we thought, hey, if they’re really interested, we’ll let them know ahead of time so they can buy the book at a discount!

So that’s what we’re doing. Just go to www.BringingSexy.com and enter your email address, and we’ll give you early notice so you can buy our new book at a heavy discount*.

www.BringingSexy.com

* Selling or sharing email addresses is definitely NOT sexy, so we won’t engage in any of that sort of behavior.

Ocean Gebhardt is based in Portland. He got his Masters in Finance and Fiscal Policy and wrote his thesis on the Dumb Agent Theory (whoa! That’s the name of this website!). He has been blabbering about economics ever since.

Rebecca Gebhardt is based in Atlanta with her husband Giuseppe. Having grown up in Switzerland in the 80′s (whoa! That’s where Ocean grew up too!), she was witness to the dichotomy between Western Europe and Soviet Eastern Europe, and has been an unapologetic free marketer ever since.

We both have other careers and dedicate our spare time to this blog, which is why we bother you from time to time for contributions, advice, or propose awesome swag and enlightening books.

Want to know more? Go here, or ask us anything by mailing us here: Questions@dumbagent.com

By the same token, if there is an entire topic we have not touched upon at all that you would like added, feel free to let us know as well. In fact, if you want to write something yourself and if we like it we will feature it and consider it for inclusion in the book (this is an “if” guys, so no guarantees!).

So, got something to add? Feel free to comment below or to write us at Articles@dumbagent.com.

Also, since the book edition will be coming out, our old book is now discounted and you can buy it right here!

And if you buy books via our store, you pay the same price as always but we receive a commission from Amazon, so you can help us with our expenses (like Becky’s caviar dinners and private helicopter).

We have also written book reviews for many of these books, which you can find here:

Macrowikinomics book review.
The Upside of Irrationality book review.
The Rational Optimist book review.
The Checklist Manifesto and Work the System book reviews.
SuperFreakonomics book review.
Nudge book review.

If you have any other suggestions for books that make you smarter, feel free to let us know in the comments or by sending us an email!

When you shop at the Dumbagent store, you will
A) make the recipient’s holiday special by sending them something with “Dumb Agent” written on it (and nothing says Season’s Greetings like Dumb Agent), and you will
B) make us very happy by supporting us through these cold cold holidays. Especially intern Tiny Tim Cratchit, who’s been very sickly as of late.

So if there’s someone you never know what to buy for, buying them DumbAgent products is a good excuse for saying “Aren’t you happy to be supporting that blog?”

Find what you like and order it right here:

Or, if you hate gift giving like Tiny Tim’s supervisor Ebenezer, here is an article that pretty much corroborates what you always suspected.

Supervisor Scrooge

The design is new, thank you for noticing, and vastly simplified. Stripping things down to just the core pages we present to you the new DumbAgent.com: it’s all about the articles. Starting on Tuesday, August 23rd, expect many more of them.

And we are up and running, so sign up to the RSS feed (upper right), bookmark the homepage and join in the conversation.

We have therefore featured several ways of supporting us that won’t cost you a dime. First of all, you will notice the Amazon toolbar to the right (if you are reading this on our website, which we highly encourage). If you use this to search for all your Amazon.com aquisitions, we will then receive a small percentage of the money you spend. This costs you nothing, and helps us pay our website fees.

Right under this you will find some of our sponsors. If you see any deals you like, feel free to click on them! If not, feel free to think of three friends who might like them and let them know! All proceeds will go toward marble floors in our office.

If you then scroll down a bit, you’ll see our “Temporary Godaddy Deal”. If you are planning on using Godaddy (which is what we use) to buy domains, we suggest clicking on this button, as not only will you receive discounts, but once again we will receive a percentage of what you spend, to go toward our private helicopters.

If you need apparel, bags, coffee mugs, tumblers, pillows, etc. you can always purchase them from our store. Obviously these have a fee, although we only placed a $1 premium on each object. The rest go to the manufacturers. And if you would like a good read, you can always buy our book, which is certainly worth every penny and then some. These will help us pay for our office gourmet japanese chef.

You can, of course, still contribute in the old fashioned way as well. At the bottom of each post, you will see a “Donate” button. Although this does cost you money giving nothing in return, it A) saves time for you and B) will still result in one free book per month. These donations will go towards our in-office pet ocelot.

So we thank you in advance (which is very efficient of us) and ask that you be efficient, economically rational, and have economics and your self-interest at heart when you donate for our 24 hour on-call Tennis coach.

He yells a lot but he’s good

So if you have any ideas you think would be great to spread around via clothing, feel free to mail them to us at design@dumbagent.com. The winning design will be featured on our site on an article of clothing (if you have any preference feel free to let us know) and we will send one to you to wear with pride.

Need inspiration? Check out some of our current designs at our Dumb Market.

Photo: Tina Gao, via Freakonomics

Submit entries in comments, or email rebecca@dumbagent.com

The winner will have his or her caption featured under the photo on our website with pride. We’ll have a new photo featured every now and then. Enjoy!

Curiously, the article with our Hybrid cost calculator was not first, even though it was linked to from Tyler Cowen’s blog. Just for the record, our favorites of these are numbers 4,7 and 9.

Enjoy!

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