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Index
Cover
Description
Praise
About Steven E. Landsburg
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Part I: What Life Is All About
Chapter 1: The Power of Incentives: How Seat Belts Kill
Chapter 2: Rational Riddles: Why U2 Concerts Sell Out
Chapter 3: Truth or Consequences: How to Split a Check or Choose a Movie
Chapter 4: The Indifference Principle: Who Cares If the Air Is Clean?
Chapter 5: The Computer Game of Life: Learning What It’s All About
Part II: Good and Evil
Chapter 6: Telling Right from Wrong: The Pitfalls of Democracy
Chapter 7: Why Taxes Are Bad: The Logic of Efficiency
Chapter 8: Why Prices Are Good: Smith versus Darwin
Chapter 9: Of Medicine and Candy, Trains and Sparks: Economics in the Courtroom
Part III: How to Read the News
Chapter 10: Choosing Sides in the Drug War: How the Atlantic Monthly Got It Wrong
Chapter 11: The Mythology of Deficits
Chapter 12: Unsound and Furious: Spurious Wisdom from the Media
Chapter 13: How Statistics Lie: Unemployment Can Be Good for You
Chapter 14: The Policy Vice: Do We Need More Illiterates?
Chapter 15: Some Modest Proposals: The End of Bipartisanship
Part IV: How Markets Work
Chapter 16: Why Popcorn Costs More at the Movies: And Why the Obvious Answer Is Wrong
Chapter 17: Courtship and Collusion: The Mating Game
Chapter 18: Cursed Winners and Glum Losers: Why Life Is Full of Disappointments
Chapter 19: Random Walks and Stock Market Prices: A Primer for Investors
Chapter 20: Ideas of Interest: Armchair Forecasting
Chapter 21: The Iowa Car Crop
Part V: The Pitfalls of Science
Chapter 22: Was Einstein Credible? The Economics of the Scientific Method
Chapter 23: New Improved Football: How Economists Go Wrong
Part VI: The Pitfalls of Religion
Chapter 24: Why I Am Not an Environmentalist: The Science of Economics versus the Religion of Ecology
Appendix: Notes on Sources
Index
Footnotes
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