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• How do you decide who gets lungs (a situation where there is no market)
• Are you being tricked into working harder? (with Teaching Ideas)

Chapter 2 – thinking like an economist

• The No-brainer Economic Platform

Chapter 3 – interdependence and gains from trade

• Adam Smith, Mama’s Boy

• Economics for Medieval Chinese Peasants

Chapter 4 – supply and demand

• How Fear Turned a Surplus Into a Scarcity

• Do Sanctions Work (shortage)

Chapter 5 – elasticity

• Moonshine Stimulus

• An Economist Gets Stoned

Chapter 6 – government policies impact on market

• Why It Is Illegal to Braid Hair Without a License

Chapter 7 – market efficiency

• Lebronomics

• Why Economists Hate Gifts

• How Much is a Firefighter Worth

Chapter 8 – taxation

• Allowance, Taxes, and Potty Training

• Bloody, Miserable Medieval Economics

Chapter 9 – international trade

• Revenge of the Tariffs

• A Meat Grinder for Fabric

• The Cotton Wars

Chapter 10 – externalities

• Why Taxpayers Pay for Farmers’ Insurance (subsidies)

• The Patent War

• A Former Crack Dealer on the Economics of Drugs

• The Case for Preschool

• Do Dollar Store Bans Work? (with Teaching Ideas)

Chapter 11 –  public goods and common resources

• Parking is Hell 

• Lighthouses, Autopsies and the Federal Budget

• Putting a Price Tag on your Descendents

• The Wide Open Possibility of the High Seas (with Teaching Ideas)

Chapter 12 – design of tax system

• The Surprisingly Entertaining History of the Income Tax

Chapter 13 – costs of production

• Katy Perry’s Perfect Year

• Manufacturing the Song of the Summer

• Batteries are catching fire at sea (with Teaching Ideas)

Chapter 14 – firms in competitive markets

• Four in One

Chapter 15 – Monopoly

• Can You Patent a Steak

• The Matzo Economy

Chapter 16 – Oligopoly

• The Nasty Rotten Airline Business

• The Price of Things We Love

• The Ice Cream Conspiracy (with Teaching Ideas)

Chapter 17 – monopolistic competition

• How To Make It In the Food Truck Business

Chapter 18 – markets for factors of production

Chapter 19 – earnings and discrimination

• Freakonomics goes to College Part I and Part II

• What a 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition

Chapter 20 – income inequality and poverty

• India’s Economy is Booming, But Not for Everybody

Chapter 21 – theory of consumer choice

Chapter 22 – frontiers of microeconomics

• Why People Do Bad Things

• Trashed

• Is America’s Obesity for Real?