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Index
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
1 - Are You Getting Ripped Off?
Speculators, Price Gougers, and Other Good People
How Monopolies and Price Discrimination Help Save Lives
Why Are Dinners and Liquor So Expensive in Restaurants?
Why are Last-Minute Airline Tickets So Expensive?
Why Does the Price Spread Between Full and Self-Service Gas Vary?
Predatory Pricing—Not as Easy as it Seems
The Failure of Some Typical “Market Failure” Tales
Court Regulation: Good Intentions, Bad Results
2 - Reputations
What Keeps Politicians and Businesses Honest?
Why Do People Donate Money to Political Campaigns?
Campaign Finance Reform
Why is Campaign Spending Increasing So Quickly?
The Myth of Double-Giving
Individual Reputations and Crime
Reputations: Keeping Corporations Honest
3 - Government as Nirvana?
C’mon and Take a Free Ride
Diversified Stock Holding: A Free Market Approach to Keeping Corporate Peace
State Predators and Private Lambs
The Modern Guild System
Smoking Bans—Light ’Em Up
4 - Crime and Punishment
Why did Crime Fall During the 1990s?
What Increased Crime? Part I
What Increased Crime? Part II
What Decreased Crime? Part I
What Decreased Crime? Part II
What Decreased Crime? Part III
What Didn’t Really Matter? Part I
What Didn’t Really Matter? Part II
The Verdict Is Still Out
A Few Odds and Ends about Crime
5 - Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs
Women’s Suffrage and the Growth of Government
Suppressing Voter Turnout: The Poll Tax, Secret Ballots, and Literacy Tests
Voter Fraud
Voting Machines
The 2000 Florida Vote
Early Media Calls
Felon Voting
Is the Media Biased?
Government Control of Information: From Public Schools to Television
Parting Thoughts
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Copyright Page
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