Freedomnomics
Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't
Published on 4. June 2007
275 pages
978-1-59698-133-1 (ISBN)
Description
Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other common economic questions, bravely confronting the profound distrust of the market that the bestselling book Freakonomics has helped to popularize. Using clear and hard-hitting examples, Lott shows how free markets liberate the best, most creative, and most generous aspects of our society - while efforts to constrain economic liberty, no matter how well-intentioned, invariably lead to increased poverty and injustice.
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05/2007
Regnery Publishing Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 - Are You Getting Ripped Off?
- Speculators, Price Gougers, and Other Good People
- How Monopolies and Price Discrimination Help Save Lives
- Why Are Dinners and Liquor So Expensive in Restaurants?
- Why are Last-Minute Airline Tickets So Expensive?
- Why Does the Price Spread Between Full and Self-Service Gas Vary?
- Predatory Pricing-Not as Easy as it Seems
- The Failure of Some Typical "Market Failure" Tales
- Court Regulation: Good Intentions, Bad Results
- 2 - Reputations
- What Keeps Politicians and Businesses Honest?
- Why Do People Donate Money to Political Campaigns?
- Campaign Finance Reform
- Why is Campaign Spending Increasing So Quickly?
- The Myth of Double-Giving
- Individual Reputations and Crime
- Reputations: Keeping Corporations Honest
- 3 - Government as Nirvana?
- C'mon and Take a Free Ride
- Diversified Stock Holding: A Free Market Approach to Keeping Corporate Peace
- State Predators and Private Lambs
- The Modern Guild System
- Smoking Bans-Light 'Em Up
- 4 - Crime and Punishment
- Why did Crime Fall During the 1990s?
- What Increased Crime? Part I
- What Increased Crime? Part II
- What Decreased Crime? Part I
- What Decreased Crime? Part II
- What Decreased Crime? Part III
- What Didn't Really Matter? Part I
- What Didn't Really Matter? Part II
- The Verdict Is Still Out
- A Few Odds and Ends about Crime
- 5 - Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs
- Women's Suffrage and the Growth of Government
- Suppressing Voter Turnout: The Poll Tax, Secret Ballots, and Literacy Tests
- Voter Fraud
- Voting Machines
- The 2000 Florida Vote
- Early Media Calls
- Felon Voting
- Is the Media Biased?
- Government Control of Information: From Public Schools to Television
- Parting Thoughts
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright Page
