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" Sex, drugs, & economics : "
Diane Coyle.
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BL
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1007544
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b761914
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| Main Entry
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Coyle, Diane.
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Sex, drugs, economics : : an unconventional introduction to economics /\ Diane Coyle.
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| Publication Statement
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Australia ;New York :: Thomson Texere,, ©2004.
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xv, 263 pages ;; 24 cm
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1587991470
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: 1587991829
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: 9781587991479
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: 9781587991820
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : why economics trumps common sense -- I. Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll : economics really does apply to everything -- 1. Sex : can you have too much of a good thing? -- 2. Illegal drugs : it's the economy, man -- 3. Risky business : why most teenagers don't act like economists -- 4. Sports : better than sex -- 5. Music : the new economy's robber barons -- 6. Food fights : helping lame ducks waddle -- II. What governments are good for : public goods, externalities, and taxes -- 7. Infrastructure : but I never travel by train -- 8. Scoreboard for energy taxes : industry 5, environment 1 -- 9. Auctions : call my bluff -- 10. Tax incidence : only people pay tax -- 11. War games : a government's gotta do what a government's gotta do -- III. New technology : how business is coping with change -- 12. Movies : why subtitles need subsidies -- 13. Networks : "the program has unexpectedly quit" -- 14. The Internet : the economics of dot-bombs -- 15. Industrial change : creative destruction -- IV. There's a world out there : globalization isn't all globaloney -- 16. Disease : no man is an island -- 17. Multinationals : sweatshop earth? -- 18. Immigration : the missing link -- 19. Demography : the South has the last laugh -- 20. Development : the triumph of fashion -- V. Life, the universe & everything : macroeconomics -- 21. Japan : kogaru versus one-kei, or why Tokyo's teenage fashions matter -- 22. Inflation : targeting the sleeping beast -- 23. Defense spending : farewell to the peace dividend -- 24. Weather : why economists care about the sex life of pigs -- 25. Work : why do it? -- Epilogue : in praise of economics -- Ten rules of economic thinking -- Glossary.
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Economics.
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Economics.
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Economie.
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330
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HB171.5.C8672 2004
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83.00bcl
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83.00.bcl
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Sex, drugs, and economics
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