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 ...

With his witty and instructive book The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg won popularity and acclaim by using economics to illuminate the mysteries of daily life, and using daily life to illuminate the mysteries of economics.

Makes provocative suggestions for tackling difficult modern issues, from using promiscuity as a method of spreading disease to charging juries for exonerating convicted felons and giving rescued property to firefighters.

In the wake of his enormously popular books, The Armchair Economistand More Sex is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from maths, economics and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: Where does knowledge come from?

The book uses social welfare as a unifying concept and provides an extended analysis of market failures, property rights, the rule of law, and the relationship between micro- and macro-economics.

Whether these are nagging questions you’ve always had, or ones you never even thought to ask, this new edition of The Armchair Economist turns the eternal ideas of economic theory into concrete answers that you can use to navigate the ...

Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist and professor of economics, dares you to try.

In a witty and accessible guide to the ABCs of economics--as seen through the eyes of a child--Steven Landsburg introduces his nine-year-old daughter, Cayley, with whose help he neatly demonstrates that the wisdom of economics is actually ...

In the United States, he helped to end the military draft, to broaden educational choice, and to change the regulatory climate. [...] In several cases, Friedman's methods inspired the creation of entire new subfi elds including the economic ...