How the dismal science applies to your life.

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• Texaco's Uncompensated Victims How corporate discrimination hurts stockholders.
  Steven E. Landsburg Dec. 7, 1996
  
• Putting on Heirs How parents decide about divvying up the loot.
  Steven E. Landsburg Nov. 8, 1996
  
• The Perfect Tax If there must be taxes, at least they should be inefficient.
  Steven E. Landsburg Oct. 11, 1996
  
• Squeal or Deal? Why the Whitewater defendants and the CIA should study economics.
  Steven E. Landsburg Sept. 13, 1996
  
• Kwitcherbellyachin' You--personally--can eliminate the national debt.
  Steven E. Landsburg Aug. 3, 1996
  
• More Sex Is Safer Sex The economic case for promiscuity.
  Steven E. Landsburg July 6, 1996