The armchair economist : (Record no. 8941)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-1-4165-8725-5 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | e-book (SD) |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Landsburg, S. E. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The armchair economist : |
| Remainder of title | economics & everyday life / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Steven E. Landsburg. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Free Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1993. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 280 p. : |
| Other physical details | tables, ill. ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical appendix and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Preface to the Second Edition vii<br/>Introduction xi<br/>I. WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT<br/>1. The Power of Incentives: How Seat Belts Kill<br/>2. Rational Riddles: Why U2 Concerts Sell Out<br/>3. Truth or Consequences: How to Split a Check or Choose a Movie<br/>4. The Indifference Principle: Who Cares If the Air Is Clean?<br/>5. The Computer Game of Life: Learning What It’s All About<br/>II. GOOD AND EVIL<br/>6. Telling Right from Wrong: The Pitfalls of Democracy<br/>7. Why Taxes Are Bad: The Logic of Efficiency<br/>8. Why Prices Are Good: Smith versus Darwin<br/>9. Of Medicine and Candy, Trains and Sparks: Economics in the Courtroom<br/>III. HOW TO READ THE NEWS<br/>10. Choosing Sides in the Drug War: How the Atlantic Monthly Got It Wrong<br/>11. The Mythology of Deficits<br/>12. Unsound and Furious: Spurious Wisdom from the Media<br/>13. How Statistics Lie: Unemployment Can Be Good for You<br/>14. The Policy Vice: Do We Need More Illiterates?<br/>15. Some Modest Proposals: The End of Bipartisanship<br/>IV. HOW MARKETS WORK<br/>16. Why Popcorn Costs More at the Movies: And Why the Obvious Answer Is Wrong<br/>17. Courtship and Collusion: The Mating Game<br/>18. Cursed Winners and Glum Losers: Why Life Is Full<br/>of Disappointments<br/>19. Random Walks and Stock Market Prices: A Primer for Investors<br/>20. Ideas of Interest: Armchair Forecasting<br/>21. The Iowa Car Crop<br/>V. THE PITFALLS OF SCIENCE<br/>22. Was Einstein Credible? The Economics of the Scientific Method<br/>23. New Improved Football: How Economists Go Wrong<br/>VI. THE PITFALLS OF RELIGION<br/>24. Why I Am Not an Environmentalist: The Science of Economics versus the Religion of Ecology<br/>Appendix: Notes on Sources<br/>Index<br/>About the Author<br/>Endnotes |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | College of Natural Resources | College of Natural Resources | 28/04/2021 | e-book (SD) | 28/04/2021 | 28/04/2021 | E-Book |