The armchair economist economics and everyday life Landsburg, Steven E. 1954- creator text nyu London Simon & Schuster 2012 1993 First Free Press trade paperback edition. Revised and updated edition. monographic eng
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xiii, 316 pages ; 22 cm. 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. Steven E. Landsburg. Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. BIGD Economics Sociological aspects Social sciences HM35 .L35 2012 306.3 9781471101311 (paperback) 9781451651737 (softcover) 9780029177754 (hardcover) 2011051923 Ayesha Abed Library DLC 220313 20221101163018.0 38076 eng