Trade-offs : an introduction to economic reasoning / Harold Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Reasoning.

Economic policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

Third edition

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Summary:

"A highly reasonable, lightly fun introduction to thinking like an economist. When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or pandemics, they do so in an impersonal, detached way: what's the most low-cost way to maximize good and minimize bad? These trade-offs constitute the core of how economists see the world-and make the policies that govern it. Trade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach of analyzing controversial public-policy issues, from fiscal policies to public health and social issues. A useful introduction to the various factors that inform public opinion and policymaking, Trade-Offs comprises case studies on topics drawn from across contemporary law and society. Intellectually stimulating yet accessible and entertaining, Trade-Offs will be appreciated by students of economics, public policy, health administration, political science, and law, as well as by anyone who follows current social policy debates"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Stepping into Social Policy Analysis

2. Do You Want to Trade?

3. Is Saving Lives Repugnant?

4. Organ Donor, I Presume?

5. Stop Bothering Me

6. The Government Taketh Away

7. To Create and Protect

8. Don't Do the Crime If You Can't Do the Cane

9. What a Fine Mess

10. Three Strikes and You're In

11. For Shame

12. A Valuable Life to Some Extent

13. No Insurance for You

14. A Pound of Prevention

15. Hazardous to Your Morals

16. Doctors Behaving Badly

17. You're Off setting Me

18. Smoke If You Got 'Em

19. Joe Camel Wants YOU

20. A Safer Cigarette?

21. Fast-Food (Expla)Nation

22. The Addictive Choice

23. Consistently Inconsistent

24. We Will Make You Better Off - Like It or Not

25. There Are No Solutions

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-226-82889-1

OCLC:

1396696431