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Hidden Order : The Economics of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780887308857 | 0887308856
Format: PaperbackPublisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 7/29/2009
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What do topics as diverse as recycling, dating, rush-hour commuting, shopping, outwitting muggers, and parenting have to do with economics? In this engaging guide, David Friedman explains the practical economic applications behind the things people do every day. "A surprisingly lucid and useful book, and about as appealing as economics gets".--"Kirkus Reviews". 55 line art illustrations.
| Introduction | |
| Economics for Pleasure and Profit | p. 1 |
| Rush-Hour Blues and Rational Babies | p. 3 |
| Actions Speak Louder Than Words | p. 14 |
| Price=Value=Cost: Solving a Simple Economy | p. 23 |
| Thinking on Paper: The Geometry of Choice | p. 25 |
| What Would You Give to Get Off a Desert Island? | p. 41 |
| Bricks Without Clay: Production in a One-Input World | p. 54 |
| Ptolemaic Trade Theory | p. 65 |
| Putting It Together: Price Theory in a Simple Economy | p. 78 |
| The Big Picture | p. 100 |
| In Search of the Real World | p. 109 |
| Bosses, Workers, and Other Complications | p. 111 |
| Monopoly for Fun and Profit | p. 130 |
| Hard Problems: Game Theory, Strategic Behavior, and Oligopoly | p. 147 |
| Time ... | p. 167 |
| ... And Chance | p. 180 |
| Who Gets How Much Why? | p. 195 |
| Standing in for Moral Philosophy: The Economist as Judge | p. 215 |
| Summing People Up | p. 217 |
| What is Efficient? | p. 227 |
| How to Gum Up the Works | p. 245 |
| Why We Are Not All Happy, Wealthy, Wise, and Married | p. 260 |
| Applications: Conventional and Un | p. 279 |
| Law and Sausage: The Political Marketplace | p. 281 |
| Rational Criminals and Intentional Accidents | p. 298 |
| The Economics of Love and Marriage | p. 317 |
| Final Words | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 335 |
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