Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: A Golden Age of Discovery 1
Part One: Personal Finance: Earning, Saving,
Investing, and Retiring 15
Chapter 1: Economist Discovers a Painless Way to Triple Your
Savings Rate: The $90 Billion Opportunity 17
Chapter 2: Modern Portfolio Theory: Can You
Beat the Market? 25
Chapter 3: Yes, You Can Beat the Market . . . with Less Risk 31
Chapter 4: High-Return Investing: Lessons from Yale’s
Endowment Fund 41
Chapter 5: How Chile Created a Worker-Capitalist
Revolution 47
Chapter 6: The Call for Social Security Reform 53
Chapter 7: $4,000 a Month from Social Security? 57
Chapter 8: How the Private Sector Solved Its Own
Pension Crisis 61
Chapter 9: The Four Sources of Happiness: Is
Money One of Them? 65
Part Two: Economists Enter the
Corporate Boardroom 69
Chapter 10: Improving the Bottom Line with EVA 71
Chapter 11: How Ludwig von Mises Helped Create
the World’s Largest Private Company 75
Part Three: Solving Domestic Problems 81
Chapter 12: Look, Ma’am, No Traffi c Jams! 83
Chapter 13: Patient Power: The New Consumer-Driven
Medical Plan 93
Chapter 14: Back to Basics: Competition Enters the Classroom 103
Chapter 15: Chicago Gun Show 107
Chapter 16: Economists Catch Auction Fever 113
Chapter 17: If You Built It Privately . . . They Will Come:
The Economics of Sports Stadiums 125
Chapter 18: Who Is Henry Spearman? Economics
of the Mystery Novel 131
Part Four: Solving International Problems 135
Chapter 19: Eco-nomics Debate: Angry Planet or
Beautiful World? 137
Chapter 20: The Population Bomb: Economists Enter
the Malthusian Debate 143
Chapter 21: A Private-Sector Solution to Extreme Poverty 147
Chapter 22: Poverty and Wealth: India versus Hong Kong 153
Chapter 23: How Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle? 157
Chapter 24: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? 163
Chapter 25: The Irish Economic Miracle: Can
We Grow Faster? 167
Chapter 26: The Marginal Tax Revolution:
The Laffer Curve Goes Global 171
Chapter 27: The Debate over Economic Inequality:
The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get . . . 177
Chapter 28: One Graph Says It All: The Development of the
Economic Freedom Index 185
Chapter 29: Amazing Graph: Economists Enter Sacred Ground 197
Chapter 30: Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men:
The Case for Religious Competition 201
Part Five: Predicting the Future 205
Chapter 31: New Yale Forecasting Model: Has the Irving
Fisher Curse Been Lifted? 207
Chapter 32: Forecasting Elections: Economists Do It Better! 213
Chapter 33: What Drives the Economy and Stocks:
Consumer Spending or Business Investment? 217
Chapter 34: The Midas Metal: A Golden Comeback 225
Chapter 35: Is Another Great Depression Possible? 233
Chapter 36: Today’s Most Infl uential Economist? 239
Chapter 37: Economics for the 21st Century 243
Notes 247
About the Author 265
Index 267
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