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