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More Sex Is Safer Sex The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

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ISBN-10: 1416532226

ISBN-13: 9781416532224

Edition: 2008

Authors: Steven E. Landsburg

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Economics is no longer the "dismal science" dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English. Steve Landsburg was one of the first of the new breed, in his bookThe Armchair Economistand long-running "Everyday Economics" column inSlatemagazine. Now he is back, and more provocative than ever. InMore Sex is Safer Sex, Landsburg shows how the rational behavior of each one of us--when combined together--produces the often bizarre, seemingly irrational behavior of crowds. We all stand up at the ballpark, so none of us can see. We avoid…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester.nbsp; He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy.nbsp;His current research is in the area of quantum game theory.nbsp;He blogs daily at www.TheBigQuestions.com . For over ten years, he wrote the monthly "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written regularly for Forbes and occasionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a commentator on…    

Acknowledgments
Preface: Unconventional Wisdom
The Communal Stream
More Sex Is Safer Sex
Addendum
Be Fruitful and Multiply
What I Like About Scrooge
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Children at Work
How to Fix Everything
How to Fix Politics
How to Fix the Justice System
How to Fix Everything Else
How to Fight Fires
How to Fight Crime
How to Prevent Accidents
How to Fight Pollution
How to Solve the Kidney Shortage
How to Fight Grade Inflation
How to Shorten Waiting Lines
Everyday Economics
Go Figure
Oh No! It's a Girl!
The High Price of Motherhood
The Big Questions
Giving Your All
A Defense of Pure Reason
The Central Banker of the Soul
How to Read the News
Racial Profiling
Disaster Relief
The Sack of Baghdad
Global Warming, Local Crowding
My Barnes and Noble Trade Deficit
An Outsourcing Fable
The New Racism
Matters of Life and Death
Things That Make Me Squirm
Appendix
Index