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9781858983783

Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics

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  • ISBN13:

    9781858983783

  • ISBN10:

    1858983789

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-06-01
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
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Table of Contents

List of figures and tables
vii(2)
Acknowledgements ix(1)
Preface x
Introduction 1(3)
Cases and concepts 4(18)
1 The Adam Smith paradox
22(5)
2 The diamond-water paradox
27(4)
3 The water problem
31(2)
4 The case of the fourth egg
33(2)
5 Profiting from pants
35(3)
6 The price of quality
38(5)
7 The rationality and risk puzzle
43(5)
8 Gold's backward supply curve
48(3)
9 The positive sloping demand curve?
51(3)
10 The leisure paradox
54(3)
11 The price discrimination dilemma
57(9)
12 A hot vacation spot
66(3)
13 The rare case of a Giffen good?
69(4)
14 The case of the costly catsup
73(4)
15 The mail order question
77(3)
16 The businessman's query
80(4)
17 Are teachers underpaid?
84(7)
18 The pollution puzzle
91(7)
19 Are market wages fair?
98(5)
20 The highly valued occupation nobody wants
103(2)
21 The stock market puzzler
105(2)
22 Apples and the Alchian-Allen theorem
107(3)
23 The perfect-market puzzle
110(9)
24 The starvation of Buridan's ass
119(2)
25 Does studying economics make one immoral?
121(6)
26 The savers' dilemma
127(2)
27 Keynes's banana plantation
129(2)
28 Producing cars that don't sell
131(3)
29 The feckless forecast and policy purveyor puzzle
134(7)
30 The growing but declining gap puzzle
141(4)
31 The perpetual poverty puzzle
145(12)
32 The paradox of thrift
157(7)
33 The gold absurdity
164(2)
34 The wager over wages
166(3)
35 The voting behaviour puzzle
169(6)
36 The voting paradox
175(7)
37 A taxing debate
182(3)
38 The blessings of destruction
185(3)
39 The interest rate dilemma
188(2)
40 The population puzzler
190(3)
41 The efficiency versus equality puzzle
193(5)
42 The national debt: asset or liability?
198(2)
43 The Leontief paradox
200(6)
44 The perversity of Wall Street
206(3)
Index 209

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