Description
Preface 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 indi_erence 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 e_ciency — 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 scientificc 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.
