EconoPower

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.

ISBN	0470138076	Pages	274
ISBN13	9780470138076 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	Weight (grammes)	470
Imprint	John Wiley & Sons Ltd	Published in	Chichester
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	236
Publication date	18 Mar 2008	Width (mm)	164
Writer of foreword	Art Laffer	Spine width (mm)	26
Library of Congress	2007045588	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY	330	Alternative ISBN	9781433228575
DEWEY edition	DC22

	Introduction: A Golden Age of Discovery	1
Pt. 1	Personal Finance: Earning, Saving, Investing, and Retiring	15
Ch. 1	Economist Discovers a Painless Way to Triple Your Savings Rate: The $90 Billion Opportunity	17
Ch. 2	Modern Portfolio Theory: Can You Beat the Market?	25
Ch. 3	Yes, You Can Beat the Market ... with Less Risk	31
Ch. 4	High-Return Investing: Lessons from Yale's Endowment Fund	41
Ch. 5	How Chile Created a Worker-Capitalist Revolution	47
Ch. 6	The Call for Social Security Reform	53
Ch. 7	$4,000 a Month from Social Security?	57
Ch. 8	How the Private Sector Solved Its Own Pension Crisis	61
Ch. 9	The Four Sources of Happiness: Is Money One of Them?	65
Pt. 2	Economists Enter the Corporate Boardroom	69
Ch. 10	Improving the Bottom Line with EVA	71
Ch. 11	How Ludwig von Mises Helped Create the World's Largest Private Company	75
Pt. 3	Solving Domestic Problems	81
Ch. 12	Look, Ma'am, No Traffic Jams!	83
Ch. 13	Patient Power: The New Consumer-Driven Medical Plan	93
Ch. 14	Back to Basics: Competition Enters the Classroom	103
Ch. 15	Chicago Gun Show	107
Ch. 16	Economists Catch Auction Fever	113
Ch. 17	If You Built It Privately ... They Will Come: The Economics of Sports Stadiums	125
Ch. 18	Who Is Henry Spearman? Economics of the Mystery Novel	131
Pt. 4	Solving International Problems	135
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"!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 Skousena s Econopower...The book shows how economics has come to influence every aspect of our life" (Sunday Times Ireland Edition, December 18th 2008)

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