The armchair economist
Subtitle: economics for everyday life
By: Steven E. Landsburg
Edition: 1st pbk., rev. & updated ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781451651737
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Economics
Table of contents: title: Preface to the second edition; title: Introduction; title: What life is all about; title: The power of incentives : how seat belts kill; title: Rational riddles : why u2 concerts sell out; title: Truth or consequences : how to split a check or choose a movie; title: The indi_erence principle : who cares if the air is clean?; title: The computer game of life : learning what it's all about; title: Good and evil; title: Telling right from wrong : the pitfalls of democracy; title: Why taxes are bad : the logic of e_ciency; title: Why prices are good : smith versus darwin; title: Of medicine and candy, trains and sparks : economics in the courtroom; title: How to read the news; title: Choosing sides in the drug war : how the atlantic monthly got it wrong; title: The mythology of deficits; title: The idiot file : spurious wisdom from the internet; title: How statistics lie : unemployment can be good for you; title: The policy vice : do we need more illiterates?; title: Some modest proposals : the end of bipartisanship; title: How markets work; title: Why popcorn costs more at the movies, and why the obvious answer is wrong; title: Courtship and collusion : the mating game; title: Cursed winners and glum losers : why life is full of disappointments; title: Random walks and stock market prices : a primer for investors; title: Ideas of interest : armchair forecasting; title: The iowa car crop; title: The pitfalls of science; title: Was einstein credible? : the economics of the scientificc method; title: New improved football how economists go wrong; title: The pitfalls of religion; title: Why i am not an environmentalist: the science of economics versus the religion; title: Of ecology; title: Appendix.