More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of EconomicsA witty and razor sharp look at the many ways our individually rational decisions can combine into some truly weird collective resultsand some hilarious and serious ways to fix just about everything. Economics is no longer the dismal science dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years, a band of economists has broken away from the charts and graphs of college textbooks, and begun to explain ordinary behavior in plain and often entertaining English.

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only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself

Can we travel to the past

a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety

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and now Mel has the power to give her all she desires

no aspect - however disquieting - is ignored

and ambition is a compelling portrait of intergenerational strife

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The family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars