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010			_a 2011051923
020			_a9781471101311 (paperback)
020			_a9781451651737 (softcover)
020			_a9780029177754 (hardcover)
020			_z9781416587255 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aHM35 _b.L35 2012
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100	1		_aLandsburg, Steven E., _d1954- _946888
245	1	4	_aThe armchair economist : _beconomics and everyday life / _cSteven E. Landsburg.
250			_aFirst Free Press trade paperback edition.
250			_aRevised and updated edition.
260			_aLondon : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2012.
300			_axiii, 316 pages ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
505	0		_aPreface 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.
526			_aBIGD
650		0	_aEconomics _xSociological aspects. _946889
650		0	_aSocial sciences. _952129
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cAkbar Ali Khan Collection
942			_2ddc _cBK