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Title Page
Introduction
1 - Talking Back to Rush Limbaugh
1. Did the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Help the Rich?
2. Is Government the Only Wasteful Spender?
3. How Do Antigovernment Crusaders Make Us Poorer?
4. Do Tax Cuts for Small Business Owners Create New Jobs?
5. Is the Estate Tax Really As Bad As Rush Limbaugh Thinks?
6. What Explains the Mysterious Appeal of Trickle-Down Theory?
7. Why Punish Savers?
2 - Do Nice Guys Always Finish Last?
8. Does What We Teach Shape What We Do?
9. How Do Ethical People Survive?
10. If People Were Basically Honest, Would Sanctions Be Necessary?
11. Why Was JFK’s “Ask Not” Appeal So Effective?
12. Can Laws Curb the Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics?
3 - Money and Happiness
13. Is Human Desire Boundless?
14. Is Happiness the Only Important Welfare Measure?
15. Is GDP a Reasonable Measure of Economic Welfare?
16. Which Do We Need: Bigger Cars or Better Schools?
17. Why Is Money Often Underrated?
4 - Trailblazers
18. Why Did James Duesenberry Suddenly Disappear?
19. Why Do Hockey Players Feel They Need Helmet Rules?
20. Why Did Galbraith Never Win the Nobel Prize?
21. Was Milton Friedman Really a Bleeding Heart?
5 - The Dismal State of Economics Education
22. Why Is Economics Teaching So Ineffective?
23. Is the Opportunity Cost Concept Really That Hard to Master?
24. Why Do Brides Buy and Grooms Rent?
6 - Thinking About Health Care
25. Is Humane Treatment a Basic Right?
26. Why Does the U.S. Health Care System Work So Poorly?
27. Should the States Tackle Health Care?
28. Is Boutique Health Care a Problem?
29. Why Has the Number of Uninsured Risen So Sharply?
7 - Getting Prices Right
30. Why Is Congestion Pricing So Rarely Adopted?
31. Why Do Prices Generally Vary Too Little?
32. Why Should Travelers Get a Valuable Resource for Free?
33. If SUVs Put Others in Danger, Why Not Tax Them?
8 - Energy and the Environment
34. Why Are Sensible Policies Often “Politically Unthinkable”?
35. Why Do Gasoline Taxes Put More Money in People’s Pockets?
36. Are Inefficient Policies Ever a Good Way to Help the Poor?
37. How Do Fuel Subsidies Abroad Make Americans Poorer?
38. What Happens If the Herd Changes Course?
9 - Winner-Take-All Markets
39. How Do Cloning Technologies Create Winner-Take-All Markets?
40. Do We Have Too Many Hedge Fund Managers?
41. Why Is Merit-Based Aid Crowding Out Need-Based Aid?
42. Will Children’s Books Eventually Disappear?
43. What Was the AOL/Time Warner Merger All About?
10 - The Causes and Consequences of Growing Income Inequality
44. Why Has Inequality Been Growing So Rapidly?
45. Why Is the Rhetoric of Class Warfare So Rare in America?
46. Does Having Rich Neighbors Make You Feel Poor?
47. What Caused the Luxury Spending Boom?
48. How Do Tax Cuts Worsen Traffic Jams?
49. Hey, Timmy, How Much Was That Range Rover?
11 - Borrowing, Saving, and Investing
50. Why Do Americans Save So Little?
51. Did Greed on Wall Street Cause the Financial Crisis?
52. Should Payday Lending Be Restricted?
53. Should Those Who Borrowed Too Much Be Punished?
54. Why Is Trying to Beat the Market a Fool’s Errand?
55. Can Government Financial Data Help You Get Rich?
12 - The Economics of Information
56. Are There Any Real Secrets?
57. Does Prejudice Interfere with Normal Learning?
58. Does Competition Eliminate Job Discrimination?
Index
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