{"product_id":"tradeoffs-9780226828886","title":"TradeOffs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe highly engaging introduction to thinking like an economist, updated for a new generation of readers.    When economists wrestle with any social issuebe it unemployment, inflation, healthcare, or crime and punishmentthey do so impersonally. The big question for them is: what are the costs and benefits, or trade-offs, of the solutions to such matters? These trade-offs constitute the core of how economists see the worldand make the policies that govern it. Trade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach of analyzing controversial policy issues. A useful introduction to the various factors that inform public opinion and policymaking, Trade-Offs is composed of case studies on topics drawn from across contemporary law and society.  Intellectually stimulating yet accessible and entertaining, Trade-Offs will be appreciated by students of economics, public policy, health administration, political science, and law, as well as by anyone following current social policy debates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Third Edition\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1 Stepping into Social Policy Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 2 Do You Want to Trade?\u003cbr\u003e 3 Is Saving Lives Repugnant?\u003cbr\u003e 4 Organ Donor, I Presume?\u003cbr\u003e 5 Stop Bothering Me\u003cbr\u003e 6 The Government Taketh Away\u003cbr\u003e 7 To Create and Protect\u003cbr\u003e 8 Don’t Do the Crime If You Can’t Do the Cane\u003cbr\u003e 9 What a Fine Mess\u003cbr\u003e 10 Three Strikes and You’re In\u003cbr\u003e 11 For Shame\u003cbr\u003e 12 A Valuable Life to Some Extent\u003cbr\u003e 13 No Insurance for You\u003cbr\u003e 14 A Pound of Prevention\u003cbr\u003e 15 Hazardous to Your Morals\u003cbr\u003e 16 Doctors Behaving Badly\u003cbr\u003e 17 You’re Offsetting Me\u003cbr\u003e 18 Smoke If You Got ’Em\u003cbr\u003e 19 Joe Camel Wants YOU\u003cbr\u003e 20 A Safer Cigarette?\u003cbr\u003e 21 Fast-Food (Expla)Nation\u003cbr\u003e 22 The Addictive Choice\u003cbr\u003e 23 Consistently Inconsistent\u003cbr\u003e 24 We Will Make You Better Off—Like It or Not\u003cbr\u003e 25 There Are No Solutions\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932440407,"sku":"9780226828886","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828886.jpg?v=1719999003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tradeoffs-9780226828886","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}