非传统的经济学的智慧MORE SEX IS SAFER SEX The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
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作者： Steven E. Landsburg著
出 版 社： 家庭电子杂志社
出版时间： 2007-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 275印刷时间： 2007/04/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781416532217包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
STEVEN E.LANDSBURG writes the popular "Every-day Economics" column in Slate magazine and has also written for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, which has been published in five languages. He teaches in the department of economics at the University of Rochester.
内容简介
Steven Landsburg's writings are living proof that economics need not be "the dismal science." Readers of The Armchair Economist and his columns in Slate magazine know that he can make economics not only fun but fascinating, as he searches for the reasons behind the odd facts we face in our daily lives. In More Sex Is Safer Sex, he brings his witty and razor-sharp analysis to the many ways that our individually rational decisions can combine into some truly weird collective results -- and he proposes hilarious and serious ways to fix just about everything.
When you stand up at the ballpark in order to see better, you make a rational decision. When everyone else does it too, the results, of course, are lousy. But this is just the tip of the iceberg of individual sanity and collective madness. Did you know that some people may actually increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases when they avoid casual sex? Do you know why tall people earn more money than shorter competitors? (Hint: it isn't just unfair, unconscious prejudice.) Do you know why it makes no sense for you to give charitable donations to more than one organization?
Landsburg's solutions to the many ways that modern life is unfair or inefficient are both jaw-dropping and maddeningly defensible. We should encourage people to cut in line at water fountains on hot days. We should let firefighters keep any property they rescue from burning houses. We should encourage more people to act like Scrooge, because misers are just as generous as philanthropists.
Best of all are Landsburg's commonsense solutions to the political problems that plague our democracy. We should charge penalties to jurors if they convict a felon who is later exonerated. We should let everyone vote in two congressional districts: their own, and any other one of their choice. While we're at it, we should redraw the districts according to the alphabetical lists of all voters, rather than by geography. We should pay FDA commissioners with shares of pharmaceutical company stocks, and pay our president with a diversified portfolio of real estate from across the country.
Why do parents of sons stay married more often than parents who have only daughters? Why does early motherhood not only correlate with lower income, but actually cause it? Why do we execute murderers but not the authors of vicious computer viruses? The lesson of this fascinating, fun, and endlessly provocative book is twofold: many apparently very odd behaviors have logical explanations, and many apparently logical behaviors make no sense whatsoever.
目录
Acknowledgments
Preface: Unconventional Wisdom
PART I: 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
PART II 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
PART III : Everyday Economics
9. Go Figure
10. Oh No! It's a Girl!
11. The High Price of Motherhood
PART IV: 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
The New Racism
15. Matters of Life and Death
16. Things That Make Me Squirm
Appendix
Index
