03155nam a2200385 i 4500 38076 BD-DhAAL 20221101163018.0 220313t20121993nyu 000 0 eng d 43759 43759 2011051923 9781471101311 (paperback) 9781451651737 (softcover) 9780029177754 (hardcover) 9781416587255 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC BD-DhAAL pcc HM35 .L35 2012 306.3 23 Landsburg, Steven E., 1954- 46888 The armchair economist : economics and everyday life / Steven E. Landsburg. First Free Press trade paperback edition. Revised and updated edition. London : Simon & Schuster, 2012. xiii, 316 pages ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. 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. BIGD Donated By Akbar Ali Khan, Book Finder International 38076, 39917 Economics Sociological aspects. 46889 Social sciences. 52129 Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 306_300000000000000_LAN 1 70118 BRACUL BRACUL AAKC 2022-03-13 Donated by Akbar Ali Khan 0 306.3 LAN 3010038076 2022-03-13 1 2022-03-13 BK 0 0 ddc 0 306_300000000000000_LAN 0 72190 IGS IGS GEN 2022-10-27 Book Finder International 920.46 0 306.3 LAN 3010039917 2022-10-27 2 920.46 2022-10-27 BK