Acknowledgments -- Preface : Unconventional wisdom -- The communal stream -- More sex is safer sex -- Addendum -- Be fruitful and multiply -- What I like about Scrooge -- Who's the fairest of them all? -- Children at work -- How to fix everything -- How to fix politics -- How to fix the justice system -- How to fix everything else -- How to fight fires -- How to fight crime -- How to prevent accidents -- How to fight pollution -- How to solve the kidney shortage -- How to fight grade inflation -- How to shorten waiting lines -- Everyday economics -- Go figure -- Oh no! It's a girl! -- The high price of motherhood -- The big questions -- Giving your all -- A defense of pure reason -- The central banker of the soul -- How to read the news -- Racial profiling -- Disaster relief -- The sack of Baghdad -- Global warming, local crowding -- My Barnes and Noble trade deficit -- An outsourcing fable -- The new racism -- Matters of life and death -- Things that make me squirm -- Appendix -- Index.
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