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Tables of Contents for The Economics of Public Issues
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Part One The Foundations of Economic Analysis
1
26
Killer Airbags
4
5
Terrible Trade-Off
9
6
Flying the Friendly Skies?
15
6
Choosing Crime
21
6
Part Two Supply and Demand
27
40
Sex, Booze, and Drugs
30
8
Is Water Different?
38
6
Slave Redemption in Sudan
44
5
Choice and Life
49
8
Smoking and Smuggling
57
5
Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
62
5
Part Three Nonprice Rationing
67
24
Bankrupt Landlords from Sea to Shining Sea
70
6
Rationing Health Care
76
6
The Effects of the Minimum Wage
82
4
Caught in Traffic
86
5
Part Four Market Structures
91
28
The E-Commerce Explosion
95
5
Pity the Poor Monopolist
100
5
Keeping the Competition Out
105
6
Education and Choice
111
8
Part Five Political Economy
119
26
Killer Cars and the Rise of the SUV
122
5
Superfund Follies
127
5
Crime and Punishment
132
6
The Graying of America
138
7
Part Six Property Rights and the Environment
145
44
The Trashman Cometh
149
8
Bye, Bye, Bison
157
8
Smog Merchants
165
6
Greenhouse Economics
171
6
The Economics of Weather Forecasting
177
5
Property Rights and Forests
182
7
Part Seven The International Scene
189
18
The Benefits of Free Trade
191
5
The Opposition to Free Trade
196
5
The $750,000 Job
201
6
Glossary
207
6
Index
213