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More sex is safer sex : the unconventional wisdom of economics
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- Creator
- Steven E. Landsburg
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Free Press trade paperback edition
- New York : Free Press, 2008
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 275 pages; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781416532224, 1416532226
- OCLC
- ocn276960386
- Includes index.
- Preface : Unconventional wisdom -- pt. 1. The communal stream -- 1. More sex is safer sex -- Addendum -- 2. Be fruitful and multiply -- 3. What I like about Scrooge -- 4. Who's the fairest of them all? -- 5. Children at work -- pt. 2. How to fix everything -- 6. How to fix politics -- 7. How to fix the justice system -- 8. 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 -- pt. 3. Everyday economics -- 9. Go figure -- 10. Oh no! It's a girl! -- 11. The high price of motherhood -- pt. 4. The big questions -- 12. Giving your all -- A defense of pure reason -- 13. The central banker of the soul -- 14. 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 -- new racism -- 15. Matters of life and death -- 16. Things that make me squirm