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More sex is safer sex : the unconventional wisdom of economics
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More sex is safer sex : the unconventional wisdom of economics

Author: Steven E Landsburg
Publisher: New York : Free Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In the tradition of Freakonomics, the author of The Armchair Economist presents a series of stunning arguments that turn everyday life on its head.

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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 Read more...

 
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