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100	1		_aLandsburg, Steven E., _d1954-
245	1	4	_aThe armchair economist : _beconomics for everyday life / _cSteven E. Landsburg.
250			_a1st pbk., rev. & updated ed.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bFree Press, _c2012.
300			_axiii, 316 p. : _c22 cm.
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 scientific 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.
650		0	_aEconomics _xSociological aspects.
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