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Chapter List:
- INTRODUCTION
THE DUMB AGENT THEORY
CHAPTER 1: THE DUMB AGENT THEORY – A PRIMER
CHAPTER 2: WHY WE LIKE IT
THE DUMB AGENT THEORY IN REAL LIFE
CHAPTER 3: DUMB AGENT THEORY AT WORK IN THE 2004 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
CHAPTER 4: U.S. ELECTION 2008: HOW DID PREDICTION MARKETS DO?
CHAPTER 5: THE INFLUENZA PREDICTION MARKET
CHAPTER 6: THE JURY THEOREM
CHAPTER 7: WE ARE WHAT WE READ
CHAPTER 8: DUMB CULTURE THEORY
APPLYING ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES TO REAL LIFE
CHAPTER 9: WHEN SHOULD YOU PUMP GAS (AND HOW MUCH)?
CHAPTER 10: EBAY VS. HAND-ME-DOWNS
CHAPTER 11: THE COST OF INFORMATION
CHAPTER 12: SAVING DOLPHINS AND POLAR BEARS
CHAPTER 13: HOW TO SPOT A BUBBLE
CHAPTER 14: THE TWITTER BUBBLE
CHAPTER 15: THE NEXT BUBBLE
CHAPTER 16: WHAT A GOOD CRISIS IT’S BEEN
CHAPTER 17: USING LAISSEZ-FAIRE IN LANGUAGES?
WHEN CONVENTIONAL WISDOM SEEMS WRONG
CHAPTER 18: DUMB GMOS – OR NOT
CHAPTER 19: THE ANTI-BUBBLE
CHAPTER 20: TOP 5 REASONS NOT TO GO LOCAL
CHAPTER 21: MORE REASONS NOT TO BUY LOCAL
CHAPTER 22: WHAT PORN CAN TEACH US
CHAPTER 23: YES VIRGINIA, MARKETS ARE EFFICIENT
CHAPTER 24: READ THIS BEFORE BUYING A HOME
CHAPTER 25: HOW MOVIE STUDIOS SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT
CHAPTER 26: HOW TO RID THE WORLD OF TERRORISM
REVISIONIST HISTORY
CHAPTER 27: DUMB HISTORY: THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
CHAPTER 28: DUMB HISTORY: RICARDO WAS WRONG
CHAPTER 29: MYOPIC HINDSIGHT
PROPOSED EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER 30: BEING CLOSE TO GUNS
CHAPTER 31: MADE IN JAPAN, NOT FOR JAPAN
CHAPTER 32: HOW TO SOLVE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
CHAPTER 33: HOW TO GIVE WATER TO THE WORLD
CHAPTER 34: A LESSON FOR EUROPEANS WHO WANT TO FORM A UNION
CONCLUSION
BOOKS REFERENCED
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT DUMBAGENT
About:
The “Great Recession”, the “Downturn”, the “Housing Crisis” have made us all economists, or at least all interested in economics. Until we read about real versus nominal interest rates, or collateralized debt obligations, or some other term that was obviously written by economists for economists.
The fact is: their terms and expressions aren’t as outlandish as they would have you think (or they’d like to think themselves). Economics, which economists describe as “The study of how Supply and Demand allocate scarce resources”, is actually the study of many common sense items around us.
So… what if Economics, rather than a dull discipline with charts and graphs, were more, dare we say… Sexy?
