The armchair economist : economics and everyday life /
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| 格式: | 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
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London :
Simon & Schuster,
2012.
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| 版: | First Free Press trade paperback edition. |
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書本目錄:
- 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 indifference 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 efficiency
- 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
- Appendix.