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Tables of Contents for Everything You Need to Know About Economics
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Hey, Where Has All My Money Gone?
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``You Call This a Science?''
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1
The Stuff of Which Economic Dreams Are Made
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4
The Seven Dirty Words of Economics
6
1
Dogged Economics
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1
Tracing the Roots of Stuff
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3
Vegetarian Economics
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1
The Frog Princ (IPLE)
10
2
Betty Crocker Economics
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What you Might Expect to Learn from This Book...
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1
The Five Laws of Economics
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11
The Theories Behind the Laws
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4
Maybe Obi Heard It from the Ancient Greeks?
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3
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
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3
How to Apply the Five Laws of Economics in your own Life
19
4
Another Perspective on the Cellular Phone Market
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1
Economic Truth...Or Consequences
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6
It Ain't Schoolhouse Rock, But...
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1
...And Now, the Pundits' Views
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Cashing in on the Web
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1
Who Put the ``Capital'' in ``Capitalism''?
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``My Dad's Economy can Lick your Dad's Economy!''
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1
Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Capital and Capitalism
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4
Econ as Art
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1
Or Is It Art as Econ?
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1
Deep Pockets
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1
The $5 History of Economics
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9
The End of Duty Free
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1
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
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2
Alexander Hamilton's Bank of New York and Other Adventures in Economics
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1
This Debt Is Your Debt; This Debt is My Debt...
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Take a Ride on Reading
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1
Songs in the Keynes of Life
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1
How to Start your Own Depression
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3
FDR at Bat
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Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, And Marx
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1
A Brief History of the Corporation
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2
Hide the Money---the Lawyers Are Coming!
46
1
``Make Mine Monopsony!''
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Monopoly
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Natural Monopoly
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1
Monopsony
47
1
Oligopoly
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Collusive Oligopoly
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1
Henry Ford And Bill Gates Have A Couple of Better Ideas
48
1
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
49
2
Global Mallonomics
51
1
How To Talk Like an MBA
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``The Law of Diminishing Returns''
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1
``Economies of Scale''
53
1
``Fixed Cost''
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1
...``Variable Cost''
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``Variable Cost Per Unit'' And ``Total Variable Cost''
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``Total Cost'' And ``Total Cost Per Unit''
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1
``Marginal Revenue''
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1
``Marginal Cost''
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1
The Costco Principle
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1
Shakespearean Economics
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1
Heavy Metal
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``Smoke'em if you've Got 'Em''
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The Gold Standard
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2
Don't Put Your Money Under Your Mattress
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1
Stop the Presses!
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2
``Give Me a Dollar's Worth''
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1
Taking a Walk Through Bretton Woods
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``Do as I Say, and Do as I Do''
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1
Purchasing Power of a Dollar, 1792-1999
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1
Value of Gold, 1792--1998
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1
What Price Piracy?
69
3
``Welcome To Fantasy Island''
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1
The Life Span of Alan Greenspan
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What is the Federal Reserve?
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1
Where is the Fed?
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Does the Fed do More than Serve as a Bank for Bankers?
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How to Read Tea Leaves and Deposit Slips
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Why do we Need a Fed?
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Where does Alan Greenspan Fit in?
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What's it Take to be Chairperson of the Fed?
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Which Came First---The Chicken or the Egg?
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Getting Soaked with the Head of the Fed and the Prez
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3
Rub-A-Dub-Dub...Two Beltway Insiders in a Tub
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1
Meet the ``Evil Twins'' of Economics
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4
Textbook Definition of Inflation
83
2
Why you'd Hate Inflation if you were a Banker
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1
Who's who Among the Unemployed
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1
Death and Taxes
86
2
Flat Tax
86
1
Regressive Tax
86
1
Progressive Tax
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1
A Short History of Misery
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2
The Seven Deadly Taxes
89
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How to Win Friends and Influence People while at an Audit
90
1
Better Yet, How to Avoid an Audit Altogether
91
2
Always Leave 'Em Laffing---Part I
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1
Always Leave 'Em Laffing---Part II
93
1
And Let's Not Forget About Entitlements...
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1
Get your Voodoo Direct from the Source
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1
Entitlements---Part II
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1
Don't Believe everything you're Told
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1
Debt? or Deficit?
96
2
``How can I be Out of Money when i Still have some Checks?''
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1
Why Misery Loves Economists''
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5
This is your Life
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3
Pandora's Box
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1
One CPI, Three GNPs, and 10 Quick Sketches of GDP
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6
Consumer Price Index
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2
Economic Indicator Fun
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1
Gnp X 3
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1
The Many Faces of Gdp
106
3
The Passover Principle
109
3
Why is this Economy Like no Other Economy?
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Will This Ever End?
110
1
What is a Recession?
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What is a Depression?
110
2
``But Doctor, I don't Feel Depressed''
111
1
Wealth 101
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16
Report on ``the Stock Market Report''
113
5
Solve These Equations
114
4
Bonds. James' Bonds.
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4
The Pollyanna Principle
121
1
Getting Rich at Work
122
1
How to Ask for a Raise
122
2
``Sure...Save Your Money, Sucker!''
124
1
Oops! Maybe Your Parents Were Right, After All...
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1
When ``Goods'' are Bad
125
3
And Don't Think you're Getting Off the Hook
127
1
When the Laws of Science and the Laws of Economics Collide
127
1
Deciphering Economics...Once and for all
128
3
Baseball, Hot Dogs, and a Nobel Prize
128
1
Do It ``The Cowboy Way''
128
3
Birds do it, Bees do it...Even the Heads of Giant Corporations do it
129
2
Index
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