Unexpected Economics

Utilize economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do.

• By This Professor
• 01: The World of Choices
• 02: A Market for Pregnancy
• 03: Selling a Kidney
• 04: Traffic Congestion-Costs, Pricing, and You
• 05: Two-Way Ties between Religion and Economics
• 06: Prediction Markets-Windows on the Future
• 07: Pathways for Crime and Crime Fighting
• 08: Terrorism as an Occupational Choice
• 09: Marriage as a Search Market
• 10: Procreation and Parenthood
• 11: Small Choices and Racial Discrimination
• 12: Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma
• 13: Fairness and the Ultimatum Game
• 14: Myopic Preferences and Behavioral Economics
• 15: Altruism, Charity, and Gifts
• 16: Loss Aversion and Reference Point Bias
• 17: Risk and Uncertainty
• 18: Human Herds and Information Cascades
• 19: Addiction and Choice
• 20: Obesity-Who Bears the Costs?
• 21: The Economics of Natural Disasters
• 22: Sports Lessons-Pay, Performance, Tournaments
• 23: Voting, Money, and Politics
• 24: The Pursuit of Happiness