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EconoPower
How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World
Mark Skousen (Author), Arthur Laffer (Foreword by)
9781119091868, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 5 June 2015
288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.392 kg
"... offers practical advice on personal finance matters, earning, saving, investing and retiring, based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioural economics." (Pensions World, July 2008) "... you can pick up nuggets of insight into behavioural economics, game theory, the flat tax debate, auction theory (particularly good)...." (Financial World, June 2008) "... check out Mark Skousen's EconoPower.... The book shows how economics has come to influence every aspect of our life." (Sunday Times Ireland Edition, December 18th 2008)
EconoPower will provide you with a firm understanding of the influence of modern economics and how it can be used to improve the world we live in. It offers practical advice on numerous personal financial matters—earning, saving, investing, and retiring—based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. And it looks at how economists are working successfully on issues such as public education, crime, and global warming. EconoPower also examines how a new economic philosophy may dominate the new millennium.
Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: A Golden Age of Discovery 1 Part One: Personal Finance: Earning, Saving, Investing, and Retiring 15 Chapter 1: Economist Discovers a Painless Way to Triple Your Savings Rate: The $90 Billion Opportunity 17 Chapter 2: Modern Portfolio Theory: Can You Beat the Market? 25 Chapter 3: Yes, You Can Beat the Market . . . with Less Risk 31 Chapter 4: High-Return Investing: Lessons from Yale's Endowment Fund 41 Chapter 5: How Chile Created a Worker-Capitalist Revolution 47 Chapter 6: The Call for Social Security Reform 53 Chapter 7: $4,000 a Month from Social Security? 57 Chapter 8: How the Private Sector Solved Its Own Pension Crisis 61 Chapter 9: The Four Sources of Happiness: Is Money One of Them? 65 Part Two: Economists Enter the Corporate Boardroom 69 Chapter 10: Improving the Bottom Line with EVA 71 Chapter 11: How Ludwig von Mises Helped Create the World’s Largest Private Company 75 Part Three: Solving Domestic Problems 81 Chapter 12: Look, Ma’am, No Traffi c Jams! 83 Chapter 13: Patient Power: The New Consumer-Driven Medical Plan 93 Chapter 14: Back to Basics: Competition Enters the Classroom 103 Chapter 15: Chicago Gun Show 107 Chapter 16: Economists Catch Auction Fever 113 Chapter 17: If You Built It Privately . . . They Will Come: The Economics of Sports Stadiums 125 Chapter 18: Who Is Henry Spearman? Economics of the Mystery Novel 131 Part Four: Solving International Problems 135 Chapter 19: Eco-nomics Debate: Angry Planet or Beautiful World? 137 Chapter 20: The Population Bomb: Economists Enter the Malthusian Debate 143 Chapter 21: A Private-Sector Solution to Extreme Poverty 147 Chapter 22: Poverty and Wealth: India versus Hong Kong 153 Chapter 23: How Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle? 157 Chapter 24: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? 163 Chapter 25: The Irish Economic Miracle: Can We Grow Faster? 167 Chapter 26: The Marginal Tax Revolution: The Laffer Curve Goes Global 171 Chapter 27: The Debate over Economic Inequality: The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get . . . 177 Chapter 28: One Graph Says It All: The Development of the Economic Freedom Index 185 Chapter 29: Amazing Graph: Economists Enter Sacred Ground 197 Chapter 30: Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men: The Case for Religious Competition 201 Part Five: Predicting the Future 205 Chapter 31: New Yale Forecasting Model: Has the Irving Fisher Curse Been Lifted? 207 Chapter 32: Forecasting Elections: Economists Do It Better! 213 Chapter 33: What Drives the Economy and Stocks: Consumer Spending or Business Investment? 217 Chapter 34: The Midas Metal: A Golden Comeback 225 Chapter 35: Is Another Great Depression Possible? 233 Chapter 36: Today’s Most Influential Economist? 239 Chapter 37: Economics for the 21st Century 243 Notes 247 About the Author 265 Index 267
Subject Areas: Economics [KC]
