How the dismal science applies to your life.

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• Efficient Mortality The dismal logic of total decline.
  Steven E. Landsburg Dec. 4, 1998
  
• Party Tricks Twenty dollar bills and campaign finance reform.
  Steven E. Landsburg Nov. 6, 1998
  
• Privatize the Independent Counsel! Tired of Kenneth Starr wasting your money? Then give him the right incentives.
  Steven E. Landsburg Sept. 4, 1998
  
• Justice—Priced to Sell Remind me, why is it better to let 10 guilty people go free than to convict one innocent person?
  Steven E. Landsburg Aug. 7, 1998
  
• Taken to the Cleaners? Nobody can explain why laundries charge less for men's shirts than for women's.
  Steven E. Landsburg July 3, 1998
  
• Monopoly Shopping As a consumer, would you be better off if Netscape controlled the browser market, or if Microsoft did?
  Steven E. Landsburg June 5, 1998
  
• Booked Up The difference between buying at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.
  Steven E. Landsburg May 8, 1998
  
• Let the Rabbi Split the Pie Talmudic wisdom applied to bankruptcy.
  Steven E. Landsburg April 10, 1998
  
• Uninsured-Motorist Fun The laugh's on you if you're paying a high premium for car insurance.
  Steven E. Landsburg Feb. 6, 1998