More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

Makes Provocative Suggestions For Tackling Difficult Modern Issues, From Using Promiscuity As A Method Of Spreading Disease To Charging Juries For Exonerating Convicted Felons And Giving Rescued Property To Firefighters. Acknowledgments -- Preface : Unconventional Wisdom -- Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. Everyday Economics -- 9. Go Figure -- 10. Oh No! It's A Girl! -- 11. The High Price Of Motherhood -- Pt. 4. 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. Steven E. Landsburg. Includes Index.