From the Book - First edition.
Introduction by Alex Goldmark
Part One: Meet the economy
Chapter 1. The pickle problem: Discovering the elegant power of prices
Chapter 2. Why Delaware?: How a tiny state became the referee of global business
A world tour of spectacular public goods
Chapter 3. The raisin outlaw: Escaping the commodity trap
Chapter 4. The phone at the end of the world: The promise and peril of free trade
Chapter 5. How we all get richer, forever: The historic anomaly of being alive after 1700
Chapter 6. How Desi invented TV: Owning a piece of primetime
Chapter 7. The zoom boom vs. happy hour: Should my company let me work from home?
Chapter 8. A tale of two gig workers: The pros and cons of being your own boss
Chapter 9. The hopeful tale of the ATM and the bank teller: Lessons from the life cycle of automation
Part Three: Love & family
Chapter 10. The labor of finding love: Every market has a designer
Chapter 11. The opportunity atlas: The American dream exists, it's just not evenly distributed
Chapter 12. The rent Is too damn high: The Squamish Nation's impossibly simple solution to the housing crisis
Relationship advice from economists
Chapter 13. The global conspiracy to make childcare more expensive: Why goods get cheaper and services don't
Part Four: Saving & investing
Chapter 14. Bobby Bonilla Day: The "worst contract in sports history" is a blueprint for retirement planning
Chapter 15. How we all fell for a confidence trick: banking in America, in three acts
A love letter to insurance
Chapter 16. Weighing a cow and picking stocks: Why it's so hard to beat the market
Chapter 17. The biggest bet of your life: How index funds took over
Chapter 18. Why is my money worth less every year?: A brief history of the battle against inflation
Chapter 19. Why weekends are like subways and Uber: A lesson in the power of networks
How an oil shock turned Norway into a tourism destination
Chapter 20. What's the deal with credit card points?: There's no such thing as a free lunch
Chapter 21. Advanced fairness at the Marathon: Strategies for allocating scarce resources.
