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The Armchair Economist
Author: Steven E. Landsburg
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2012-05
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.
Freakonomics
Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon. 'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell 'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph 'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal 'Dazzling ... a delight' Economist 'Made me laugh out loud' Scotland on Sunday
A Plague of Prisons
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post). An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that imprisonment, originally conceived as a response to the crimes of individuals, has become “mass incarceration”: a destabilizing force that damages the very social structures that prevent crime. Drucker tracks the phenomenon of mass incarceration using basic public health concepts—“incidence and prevalence,” “outbreaks,” “contagion,” “transmission,” “potential years of life lost.” The resulting analysis demonstrates that our unprecedented rates of incarceration have the contagious and self-perpetuating features of the plagues of previous centuries. Sure to provoke debate and shift the paradigm of how we think about punishment, A Plague of Prisons offers a novel perspective on criminal justice in twenty-first-century America. “How did America’s addiction to prisons and mass incarceration get its start and how did it spread from state to state? Of the many attempts to answer this question, none make as much sense as the explanation found in [this] book.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer