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ISBN 10: 1119091861

ISBN 13: 9781119091868

Author: Mark Skousen, Arthur Laffer

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.

EconoPower How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: PERSONAL FINANCE

Chapter 1: Economist Discovers a Painless Way to Triple Your Savings Rate

The United States Is Living on Borrowed Time

Behavioral Economics Enter the Workplace…with a Little Help from Washington

The Economist behind the SMART Plan

From Reluctant to Enthusiastic Savers

Where Will You Invest Your 401(k)?

Chapter 2: Modern Portfolio Theory

Economists Create a Modern Portfolio Theory

Who Can Beat the Averages?

Chapter 3: Yes, You Can Beat the Market…with Less Risk

IBM (“Big Blue”) versus Exxon (“Big Oil”)

Beware of Technology Stocks

Siegel’s Positive Strategy

Dividend Weight versus Market Capitalization

Show Me the Money

Chapter 4: High-Return Investing

Along Comes the New Yale Model

“Eating Your Own Cooking”

Other Ivy League Schools Adopt Yale’s Model

Beating the Market Is Highly Improbable, but Not Impossible

Chapter 5: How Chile Created a Worker-Capitalist Revolution

How Does Chile’s Private Pension System Work?

The Benefits of Following the Chilean Model

Chapter 6: The Call for Social Security Reform

Why Not “Foodcare”?

Safety Net or Dragnet?

Chapter 7: $4,000 a Month from Social Security?

Social Security versus Individual Retirement Accounts

Chapter 8: How the Private Sector Solved Its Own Pension Crisis

The New Solution: Individualized 401(k) Plans

Why Social Security Needs Reform

Chapter 9: The Four Sources of Happiness

Why Most Poor People Are Unhappy

Four Elements of Happiness

Part 2: ECONOMISTS ENTER THE CORPORATE BOARDROOM

Chapter 10: Improving the Bottom Line with EVA

Are Accounting Profits for Real?

EVA Wins the Battle

Chapter 11: How Ludwig von Mises Helped Create the World’s Largest Private Company

Influence of the Austrian School

Teaching Market-Based Management at Columbia Business School

Anti-Keynesian, Anti-State?

Part 3: SOLVING DOMESTIC PROBLEMS

Chapter 12: Look, Ma’am, No Traffic Jams!

Why Isn’t the Current System Working?

Solutions to Transportation Gridlock

The Singapore Example of Peak Pricing

The London Congestion Charge

The Nation’s Pioneer HOT Lane: 91 Express Lanes in Orange County, California

Other States Adopt HOT Lanes and Tolling

Chapter 13: Patient Power

Is Universal Health Care the Solution?

How Good Are the British and Canadian Health Care Systems?

The Market Solution: Lower Costs, Higher Quality, and No Waiting

Who’s to Blame?

How to Resolve the Health Care Problem

Introducing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs): The Whole Foods Story

Chapter 14: Back to Basics

Poor Education in the Public Schools

Milton Friedman’s Idea of School Choice

Chapter 15: Chicago Gun Show

Does the Death Penalty Deter Crime?

Gun Control and Crime

Chapter 16: Economists Catch Auction Fever

The Economists behind the Google IPO Auction

William Vickrey, Father of Auction Theory

The English Auction and the Winner’s Curse

How a Vickrey Auction Works

Stamp Auctions and the Threat of Cheating

The U.S. Treasury Department Saves Millions

The FCC and Cellular Licenses

Chapter 17: If You Build It Privately…They Will Come

Private Solutions for Public Services

Economists Attack Public Financing

The Sports Economist

Chapter 18: Who Is Henry Spearman?

Elementary Economics, My Dear Watson

Defending the Free Market

Who Is This Free-Market Economist?

More Like Becker?

Part 4: SOLVING INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

Chapter 19: Eco-nomics Debate

What about Global Warming?

The Polluted State: Tragedy of the Commons

Cap-and-Trade, or Carbon Tax?

Chapter 20: The Population Bomb

The First Population Alarmist: Reverend Malthus

Malthus’s Sins of Omission

Chapter 21: A Private-Sector Solution to Extreme Poverty

Private-Sector Microlending

Saying No to the World Bank

From Marxism to Marketism

Chapter 22: Poverty and Wealth: India versus Hong Kong

From Tragic India…

…To New India

Chapter 23: How Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle?

The Cause of the Miracle

Krugman’s Challenge

The Tyranny of Numbers

Singapore’s Economic Miracle

The Lessons of Asia

Chapter 24: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

Islamic Economics

Chapter 25: The Irish Economic Miracle

Outlook by Top Economists

The Celtic Tiger: The Luck of the Irish

The Future Is Boundless

Chapter 26: The Marginal Tax Revolution

Introducing the Laffer Curve

The Flat Tax Movement

Chapter 27: The Debate Over Economic Inequality

The Work of Stanley Lebergott

Everything Is Cheap and Getting Cheaper

Benefits to the Poor and Unskilled

Today the Poor Are Gaining

Chapter 28: One Graph Says It All

Economic Freedom: A Cost or a Benefit?

The New Enlightenment

The Creation of the Economic Freedom Index

Heritage/Wall Street Journal Study

Economic Freedom and Growth

Ending Political Corruption: The Virtue of Being Rich

Critique of the Economic Freedom Indexes

Chapter 29: Amazing Graph

The Impossible Dream of One Faith

Chapter 30: Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men

Commerce and Trade Break Down Barriers

The Case for Religious Competition

Part 5: PREDICTING THE FUTURE

Chapter 31: New Yale Forecasting Model

A New Macro Model at Yale

Chapter 32: Forecasting Elections

Which Forecasts Better: Gallup or IEM ?

Who Won in 2000: Bush or Gore?

Why Speculators Outperform Pollsters

Chapter 33: What Drives the Economy and Stocks

The Importance of Say’s Law

What the Leading Economic Indicators Are Telling Us

What about the Consumer Confidence Index?

Why Doesn’t the Conference Board Include Corporate Profits as a Leading Indicator?

Beware of Keynes’s Law

Gross Domestic Expenditures (GDE): A New Measure of Total Economic Activity

U.S. Commerce Department Introduces New Macro Statistic

Chapter 34: The Midas Metal

What’s Missing from This Picture?

Return to the Gold Standard?

Not Just Another Commodity

Gold as an Inflation Hedge

Two Amazing Graphs

Gold as a Profitable Investment

Gold as a Forecaster

Chapter 35: Is Another Great Depression Possible?

The Impact of the Great Depression

The Cause of the Great Contraction

The Prolonged Slump

What Got Us Out?

Can It Happen Again?

Chapter 36: Today’s Most Influential Economist?

Other Austrian Heroes: Drucker and Schumpeter

A Tale of Two Cities

The Great U-Turn

Chapter 37: Economics for the 21st Century

The Crimes of the Twentieth Century

The Economic Miracle of the Twentieth Century

Beware the Enemy

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