Economics of Public Issues, The

Brief Contents

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

1. Death by Bureaucrat
2. Innovation
3. Flying the Friendly Skies?
4. The Mystery of Wealth
5. The Economics of Exclusion

PART TWO: SUPPLY AND DEMAND

6. Sex, Booze, and Drugs
7. The Economics of Obesity
8. Kidneys for Sale
9. Are We Running Out of Water?
10. Bankrupt Landlords, from Sea to Shining Sea

PART THREE: LABOR MARKETS

11. Das Kapital in the Twenty-First Century
12. (Why) Are Women Paid Less?
13. The Effects of the Minimum Wage
14. The (Dis)incentives of Higher Taxes

PART FOUR: MARKET STRUCTURES

15. The Platform Economy
16. Contracts, Combinations, and Conspiracies
17. Coffee, Tea, or Tuition-Free?
18. Keeping the Competition Out

PART FIVE: POLITICAL ECONOMY

19. Health Insurance for All . . . Or Maybe Not
20. The Deception of Green Energy
21. The Fight over Genetically Modified Foods
22. Student Loans
23. The Graying of America
24. For Whom the Roads Are Tolled

PART SIX: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

25. What to Do About the Climate?
26. Save That Species
27. Ethanol Madness
28. The Death of Recycling

PART SEVEN: GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

29. The Economics of the Big Mac
30. Globalization and the Wealth of America
31. The $750,000 Steelworker

Selected References