Uncommon sense : economic insights, from marriage to terrorism /
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Chicago :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Becker-Posner blog
- Sex and population
- The sexual revolution
- Gay marriage
- Polygamy
- Sex selection
- Immigration reform
- Putin's population plan
- Afterthoughts to part I
- Property rights
- Kelo and eminent domain
- Pharmaceutical patents
- Grokster, file sharing, and contributory infringement
- Orphan drugs, intellectual property, and social welfare
- Organ sales
- Traffic congestion
- Privatizing highways
- Afterthoughts to part II
- Universities
- Plagiarism
- Tenure
- For-profit colleges
- Ranking higher education
- Afterthoughts to part III
- Incentives
- Fat tax
- Trans fats ban
- Libertarian paternalism
- Chicago and big boxes
- Afterthoughts to part IV
- Jobs and employment
- Judicial term limits
- Economics of the revolving door
- CEO compensation
- Income inequality
- Corporate social responsibility
- Afterthoughts to part V
- Environment and disasters
- Tsunami
- Major disasters
- Federalism, economics, and Katrina
- Post-catastrophe price gouging
- Global warming and discount rates
- Efficient water conservation
- Afterthoughts to part VI
- Crime and punishment and terrorism
- Capital punishment
- Doping athletes
- Drunk driving
- Internet gambling
- Preventive war
- Ethnic profiling
- Privatizing security
- Antiterrorism allocations
- Collective punishment
- Afterthoughts to part VII
- The world
- Economic and political freedom
- Size of countries
- Hamas, Palestine, and democracy
- Google in China
- Economics of national culture
- Microfinance and development
- World inequality
- Foreign aid
- Afterthoughts to part VIII.