Секс, наркотики и экономика. Нетрадиционное введение в экономику

Introduction: Why Economics Trumps Common Sense -- Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Economics Really Does Apply To Everything -- Sex: Can You Have Too Much Of A Good Thing? -- Illegal Drugs: It's The Economy, Man -- Risky Business: Why Most Teenagers Don't Act Like Economists -- Sports: Better Than Sex -- Music: The New Economy's Robber Barons -- Food Fights: Helping Lame Ducks Waddle -- What Governments Are Good For: Public Goods, Externalities, And Taxes -- Infrastructure: But I Never Travel By Train -- Scoreboard For Energy Taxes: Industry 5, Environment 1 -- Auctions: Call My Bluff -- Tax Incidence: Only People Pay Tax -- War Games: A Government's Gotta Do What A Government's Gotta Do -- New Technology: How Business Is Coping With Change -- Movies: Why Subtitles Need Subsidies -- Networks: The Program Has Unexpectedly Quit -- The Internet: The Economics Of Dot-bombs -- Industrial Change: Creative Destruction -- There's A World Out There: Globalization Isn't All Globaloney -- Disease: No Man Is An Island -- Multinationals: Sweatshop Earth? -- Immigration: The Missing Link -- Demography: The South Has The Last Laugh -- Development: The Triumph Of Fashion -- Life, The Universe & Everything: Macroeconomics -- Japan: Kogaru Versus One-kei, Or Why Tokyo's Teenage Fashions Matter -- Inflation: Targeting The Sleeping Beast -- Defense Spending: Farewell To The Peace Dividend -- Weather: Why Economists Care About The Sex Life Of Pigs -- Work: Why Do It? -- Epilogue: In Praise Of Economics -- Ten Rules Of Economic Thinking -- Glossary. Diane Coyle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Explores key issues from an economical perspective to demonstrate how decisions often come down to a question of money or politics, showing how economics can be applied to basic decision making for improved opportunities and a better understanding of current events. 30,000 first printing. In this entertaining introduction to economics, Coyle shows how "the dismal science" can shed light on virtually anything -- sports, drugs, music, movies, and yes, even sex. Sex sells. British tabloids, delivered to millions of homes every day, are notorious for their daily pictures of semi-nude women.