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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven E Landsburg |
| ISBN: | 9781416532217 1416532218 |
| OCLC Number: | 73743945 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xii, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Preface : Unconventional wisdom -- pt. 1. The communal stream -- 1. More sex is safer sex -- Addendum -- 2. Be fruitful and multiply -- 3. What I like about Scrooge -- 4. Who's the fairest of them all? -- 5. Children at work -- pt. 2. How to fix everything -- 6. How to fix politics -- 7. How to fix the justice system -- 8. How to fix everything else -- How to fight fires -- How to fight crime -- How to prevent accidents -- How to fight pollution -- How to solve the kidney shortage -- How to fight grade inflation -- How to shorten waiting lines -- pt. 3. Everyday economics -- 9. Go figure -- 10. Oh no! It's a girl! -- 11. The high price of motherhood -- pt. 4. The big questions -- 12. Giving your all -- A defense of pure reason -- 13. The central banker of the soul -- 14. How to read the news -- Racial profiling -- Disaster relief -- The sack of Baghdad -- Global warming, local crowding -- My Barnes and Noble trade deficit -- An outsourcing fable -- The new racism -- 15. Matters of life and death -- 16. Things that make me squirm -- Appendix -- Index. |
| Other Titles: | Unconventional wisdom of economics |
| Responsibility: | Steven E. Landsburg. |
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"Long before the 'pop economists' there was Steven Landsburg, writing funny, jargon-free, shocking, and true essays on our material circumstances. But Landsburg knows something that other authors of bestsellers on the subject don't. He knows everything. Economics is not the study of money; it's the study of value. Everything is determined by our values. The science of everything is what economics is. And here, in "More Sex," what the reader will find is -- everything."-- P. J. O'Rourke Read more...
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