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Undressing the Dismal Science fully revised and updated CHARLES WHEELAN Foreword by Burton G. Malkiel W. W. Norton & Company New York • London Copyright © 2010, 2002 by Charles Wheelan Foreword copyright © 2002 by Burton G. Malkiel All rights reserved “Mum’s the Word” reprinted with permission. Further reproduction prohibited. © 1998 The Economist Newspaper Group, Inc. www.economist.com. “Two Cheers for Sweatshops,” Hearts and Heads,” and “I Love D.C.” reprinted with permission of the New York Times. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 Library of Congress has catalogued an earlier edition as follows: Wheelan, Charles J. Naked economics: undressing the dismal science/Charles Wheelan; foreword by Burton G. Malkiel.—Fully rev. and updated. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 978-0-393-07975-3 1. Economics. I. Title. HB171.W54 2010 330—dc22 2009052148 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT For Leah Contents Foreword by Burton G. Malkiel Introduction Acknowledgments 1 The Power of Markets: Who feeds Paris? 2 Incentives Matter: Why you might be able to save your face by cutting off your nose (if you are a black rhinoceros) 3 Government and the Economy: Government is your friend (and a round of applause for all those lawyers) 4 Government and the Economy II: The army was lucky to get that screwdriver for $500 5 Economics of Information: McDonald’s didn’t create a better hamburger 6 Productivity and Human Capital: Why is Bill Gates so much richer than you are? 7 Financial Markets: What economics can tell us about getting rich quick (and losing weight, too!) 8 The Power of Organized Interests: What economics can tell us about politics 9 Keeping Score: Is my economy bigger than your economy? 10 The Federal Reserve: Why that dollar in your pocket is more than just a piece of paper 11 International Economics: How did a nice country like Iceland go bust? 12 Trade and Globalization: The good news about Asian sweatshops 13 Development Economics: The wealth and poverty of nations Epilogue Life in 2050: Seven Questions Notes |