史蒂文.兰兹伯格写的通俗经济学读物，将价格理论用于解释生活中的各种事情。和魔鬼经济学等风格类似。本书为英文版，共235页。中文版即中信出版社出版的《买房子还是买股票》，但翻译质量堪忧，不如读原版的，或者可以用原版书做印证之用。    O(∩_∩)O~
      "An ingenious and highly original presentation of some central principles of economics for the proverbial Everyman. Its breezy tone conceals the subtlety of the analysis. Guaranteed to puncture some illusions and to make you think."
—MILTON FRIEDMAN
       "The Armchair Economist is a wonderful little book, written by someone for whom English is a first (and beloved) language, and it contains not a single graph or equation...Landsburg presents fascinating concepts in a form easily accessible to noneconomists."
—ERIK M. JENSEN

CONTENTS
Introduction
I. WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT
1. The Power of Incentives: How Seat Belts Kill - 3
2. Rational Riddles: Why the Rolling Stones Sell Out - 10
3. Truth or Consequences: How to Split a Check or Choose a Movie - 20
4. The Indifference Principle: Who Cares If the Air Is Clean? - 31
5. The Computer Game of Life: Learning What It's All About - 42
II. GOOD AND EVIL
6. Telling Right from Wrong: The Pitfalls of Democracy - 49
7. Why Taxes Are Bad: The Logic of Efficiency - 60
8. Why Prices Are Good: Smith Versus Darwin - 73
9. Of Medicine and Candy, Trains and Sparks: Economics in the
Courtroom - 83
III. HOW TO READ THE NEWS
10. Choosing Sides in the Drug War: How the Atlantic Monthly Got It
Wrong - 95
11. The Mythology of Deficits - 106
12. Sound and Fury: Spurious Wisdom from the Op-Ed Pages - 116
13. How Statistics Lie: Unemployment Can Be Good for You - 127
14. The Policy Vice: Do We Need More Illiterates? - 138
15. Some Modest Proposals: The End of Bipartisanship - 146
IV. HOW MARKETS WORK
16. Why Popcorn Costs More at the Movies and Why the Obvious
Answer Is Wrong - 157
17. Courtship and Collusion: The Mating Game - 168
18. Cursed Winners and Glum Losers: Why Life Is Full of
Disappointments - 174
19. Ideas of Interest: Armchair Forecasting 181
20. Random Walks and Stock Market Prices: A Primer for Investors - 188
21. The Iowa Car Crop - 197
V. THE PITFALLS OF SCIENCE
22. Was Einstein Credible? The Economics of Scientific Method - 203
23. New, Improved Football: How Economists Go Wrong - 211
VI. THE PITFALLS OF RELIGION
24. Why I Am Not an Environmentalist: The Science of Economics
Versus the Religion of Ecology - 223
Appendix: Notes on Sources - 233
Index - 237