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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Why Economics Trumps Common Sense |
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| I |
Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Economics Really Does Apply to Everything |
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Sex: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? |
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| 2 |
Illegal Drugs: It's the Economy, Man |
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Risky Business: Why Most Teenagers Don't Act Like Economists |
17 |
| 4 |
Sports: Better Than Sex |
23 |
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Music: The New Economy's Robber Barons |
31 |
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Food Fights: Helping Lame Ducks Waddle |
38 |
| II |
What Governments Are Good For: Public Goods, Externalities, and Taxes |
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Infrastructure: But I Never Travel by Train |
49 |
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Scoreboard for Energy Taxes: Industry 5, Environment 1 |
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Auctions: Call My Bluff |
69 |
| 10 |
Tax Incidence: Only People Pay Tax |
76 |
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War Games: A Government's Gotta Do What a Government's Gotta Do |
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| III |
New Technology: How Business Is Coping with Change |
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Movies: Why Subtitles Need Subsidies |
91 |
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Networks: "The Program Has Unexpectedly Quit" |
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The Internet: The Economics of Dot-Bombs |
104 |
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Industrial Change: Creative Destruction |
112 |
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There's a World Out There: Globalization Isn't All Globaloney |
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Disease: No Man Is an Island |
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Multinationals: Sweatshop Earth? |
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Immigration: The Missing Link |
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Demography: The South Has the Last Laugh |
148 |
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Development: The Triumph of Fashion |
153 |
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Life, the Universe & Everything: Macroeconomics |
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Japan: Kogaru versus One-kei, or Why Tokyo's Teenage Fashions Matter |
161 |
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Inflation: Targeting the Sleeping Beast |
172 |
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Defense Spending: Farewell to the Peace Dividend |
178 |
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Weather: Why Economists Care About the Sex Life of Pigs |
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Work: Why Do It? |
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Epilogue: In Praise of Economics |
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Ten Rules of Economic Thinking |
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Glossary |
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