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Chapter 1. Art and Science of Economy Analysis

• Would You Rather Be Rich in 1900 or Middle Class Now?

Chapter 2. Economic Tools and Economic Systems

• Will Economic Growth Destroy the Planet

• Economics for Medieval Chinese Peasants

Chapter 3. Economic Decision Makers

• The Surprisingly Entertaining History of the Income Tax

• A Meat Grinder for Fabric

• Revenge of the Tariffs

Chapter 4. Demand, Supply, and Markets

• How Fear Turned a Surplus Into a Scarcity

• Do Sanctions Work (shortage)

Chapter 5. Elasticity of Demand and Supply

• Moonshine Stimulus

• An Economist Gets Stoned

Chapter 6. Consumer Choice and Demand

• Lebronomics

• Why Economists Hate Gifts

• How Much is a Firefighter Worth

Chapter 7. Production and Cost in the Firm

• Katy Perry’s Perfect Year

• Manufacturing the Song of the Summer

Chapter 8. Perfect Competition

Chapter 9. Monopoly

• Can You Patent a Steak

• The Matzo Economy

Chapter 10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

• How to Make It in the Food Truck Business

• The Nasty Rotten Airline Business

Chapter 11. Resource Markets

Chapter 12. Labor Markets and Labor Unions

• What a 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition

Chapter 13. Capital, Interest, and Corporate Finance (interest rates, discounting, securities exchanges, bonds)

• Putting a Price Tag on Your Descendants (discounting)

• What do Private Equity Firms Actually Do

Chapter 14. Transaction Costs, Imperfect Information, and Market Behavior

• Why People Do Bad Things

• Is America’s Obesity for Real?

Chapter 15. Economic Regulation and Antitrust Policy

• The Patent War

• Why It Is Illegal to Braid Hair Without a License

Chapter 16. Public Goods and Public Choice

• Parking is Hell 

• Lighthouses, Autopsies and the Federal Budget

Chapter 17. Externalities and the Environment

• Tallying up the Pelican Bill

• Trashed

18. Income Distribution and Poverty

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

Chapter 19. International Trade

• The Cotton Wars

• Revenge of the Tariffs

• A Meat Grinder for Fabric

20. International Finance

• A Giant Stone Coin at the Bottom of the Sea

• Did China’s Central Bank Take Your Job

• China’s Giant Pool of Money

Chapter 21. Economic Development

• What’s Better for Helping the Poor: Greed or Charity?

• Do We Need the IMF?