Puzzles and paradoxes in economics /
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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK :
E. Elgar Pub. ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Adam Smith paradox
- 2. The diamond-water paradox
- 3. The water problem
- 4. The case of the fourth egg
- 5. Profiting from pants
- 6. The price of quality
- 7. The rationality and risk puzzle
- 8. Gold's backward supply curve
- 9. The positive sloping demand curve?
- 10. The leisure paradox
- 11. The price discrimination dilemma
- 12. A hot vacation spot
- 13. The rare case of a Giffengood?
- 14. The case of the costly catsup
- 15. The mail order question
- 16. The businessman's query
- 17. Are teachers under paid?
- 18. The pollution puzzle
- 19. Are market wages fair?
- 20. The highly valued occupation nobody wants
- 21. The stock market puzzler
- 22. Apples and the Alchian-Allen theorem
- 23. The perfect-market puzzle
- 24. The starvation of Buridan's ass
- 25. Does studying economics make one immoral?
- 26. The savers' dilemma
- 27. Keynes'sbanana plantation
- 28. Producing cars that don't sell
- 29. The feckless forecast and policy purveyor puzzle.