Freakonomics Expanded

Laffer curves, spontaneous order, dispersed costs...all in our favored medium, words of one syllable. Ten favorite practical economic insights from history, by someone who has wisely purged the math.

Economics ... is finally getting the credit it deserves as a social science with the power to explain a lot, not only about human behavior, but about human nature. But in case you thought Freakonomics is the first book to generate interesting, counterintuitive insights about life and the world -- you're mistaken. Economists have been doing it for a while.

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