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Intro -- 1. What Is Economics? -- 2. The Fundamentals of Economic Behavior -- 3. Production, Exchange and Consumption: The Structure of Economic Activity -- 4. The Theory of the Firm: The Role of Profit and Loss -- 5. Determining Prices and Output: The Law of Demand -- 6. Supply and Demand -- 7. How Costs Affect Prices -- 8. Monopoly and Competition -- 9. The Factors of Production: Land, Rent and Natural Resources -- 10. The Factors of Production: Wages, Employment and the Productivity of Labor -- 11. The Factors of Production: Capital and Interest -- 12. The Factors of Production: The Role of Entrepreneurship -- 13. Financing Capitalism: Stock and Bond Markets -- 14. Understanding the Macro Economy -- 15. Measures of Economic Activity, Income and Wealth -- 16. Price Inflation and the Purchasing Power of Money -- 17. Economic Growth: The Role of Saving, Investment, and Technology -- 18. Money and the Commercial Banking System -- 19. Inflation, Central Banking and Monetary Policy -- 20. Fiscal Policy and the Role of Government -- 21. Government Revenues and Tax Policy -- 22. Deficit Spending and the National Debt -- 23. Government Regulations and Controls -- 24. Environmental Economics -- 25. Expansion and Contraction: Economics of the Business Cycle -- 26. Globalization, Protectionism and Free Trade -- 27. Development Economics: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy -- 28. What Do Economists Do? -- Glossary of Economic Terms -- Index -- About the Author

Cover -- The Real George Freeman -- To Kamala -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Author note -- Prologue -- 1. Getting started in the trade -- 2. Taking a peep at the big time -- 3. Stealing or gambling? George has an each-way bet -- 4. Reaching for the top - into deals with Mr Big -- 5. Hospitality repaid - showing the Mafia our bright lights -- 6. Only a dope would've missed it: drugs make a big hit -- 7. Odds to die for: betting on the drugs trade -- 8. Crims give peace a chance, all meet in same room -- 9. Drugs not the only racket: racing gets a fix, too -- 10. Chips are down as casinos raided: punters take a short break -- 11. A shot in the dark: Freeman cops it in the neck -- 12. A new top cop, the same old game -- 13. Punting is easy when you know the winner! -- 14. The doc prescribes drugs to ease the pain of his debts -- 15. Tall poppies mown down in killing fields -- 16. NCA targets Freeman - and misses -- 17. Building a new deal in extortion -- 18. The slaughter goes on -- 19. The hit man becomes the target -- 20. McCann clan blown apart -- 21. Crims play law games: win more time for crime -- 22. Illegal bookie suffers amnesia, writes life story -- 23. Death of a drug addict -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Book of Dreams -- Chapter 1: Death, Taxes, & Motherhood -- Chapter 2: Eight Pregnancy Tests Later . . . -- Chapter 3: The Worst Summer Ever -- Chapter 4: In the Ghetto -- Chapter 5: Shamu & the Chicken Spaghetti -- Chapter 6: I Wanted My Epidural in the First Trimester -- Chapter 7: Straight from Heaven -- Chapter 8: That Time I Didn't Sleep for Four Years -- Chapter 9: War Buddies -- Chapter 10: Back to Work, Back to Reality -- Chapter 11: Potty Training: Bringing People to Their Knees Since Forever -- Chapter 12: We Don't Throw Sand -- Chapter 13: Letting It All Hang Out -- Chapter 14: I Can No Longer Bring Home the Bacon -- Chapter 15: Putting the Crazy on Display -- Chapter 16: Lifestyles of the Sick & Feverish -- Chapter 17: Nitpicking -- Chapter 18: Ready for the World -- Chapter 19: The Big, Bad World of Elementary School -- Chapter 20: It's a Party & I'll Cry If I Want To -- Chapter 21: One Isn't Always the Loneliest Number -- Chapter 22: Brothers from Another Mother -- Chapter 23: Like a Band of Idiots We Go down the Highway -- Chapter 24: The Dream of the Wheaties Box -- Chapter 25: Adorable Cookie Salesperson in Polyester -- Chapter 26: Caroline, the Witch, & the Wardrobe -- Chapter 27: Little Steps of Letting Go -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author

Intro -- Title -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE : DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE -- 1 Dr Richard John Sharpe -- 2 Dr Robert Bierenbaum -- 3 Dr Geza de Kaplany -- 4 Dr Debora Green -- 5 Dr Dirk Greineder -- 6 Dr Jonathan Nyce -- 7 Dr John Cavaness -- 8 Sinedu Tadesse -- 9 Virginia McGinnis -- 10 Edna Chubb -- 11 Noreen O'Conner -- PART TWO : KILLER ON THE WARD -- 12 Colin Norris -- 13 Kristen Gilbert -- 14 Robert Diaz -- PART THREE : MEDICS IN THE MEDIA -- 15 Dr Harold Shipman -- 16 Beverly Allitt -- 17 Charles Cullen -- 18 Orville Lynn Majors -- PART FOUR : DEADLY DENTISTS -- 19 Dr Samuel Perera -- 20 Dr Clara Harris -- 21 Dr Glennon Engleman -- 22 Dr Kenneth Taylor -- PART FIVE : LETHAL PARAMEDICS -- 23 Gavin Hall -- 24 Kristin Rossum -- 25 Bruce Moilanen -- 26 Chante Mallard -- PART SIX : PAPER MASKS -- 27 John Brown -- 28 Dean Faiello -- 29 John Christie -- PART SEVEN : UNBRIDLED LUST -- 30 Francis Fahey -- 31 Dr Joseph Charalambous -- 32 Anthony Joyner -- 33 Dr Samson Dubria -- 34 Bobby Joe Long -- PART EIGHT : WHY THEY KILL -- 35 Typologies of Medical Killers -- Acknowledgements -- Select Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- By Carol Anne Davis -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Advertisement.

Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables, Maps, and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 ANTECEDENTS -- 1. The Three Villages in the Valley -- 2. The Land Reform of 1945 -- PART 2 AGRICULTURAL COLLECTIVIZATION -- 3. Agrarian Policies in the 1950s -- 4. The First Phase of Collectivization -- 5. The Second Phase of Collectivization -- 6. The Three Collectives of Pécsely -- 7. The First Merger -- 8. Internal Organization in the New Rákoczi Collective -- 9. The Jókai Collective -- 10. The Collectives' Dependence and Independence -- 11. Relationship of Members to the Collective -- PART 3 BEYOND THE COLLECTIVE -- 12. Plot Farming: The 'Second Economy' -- 13. The Small Giant: Form and Function of Plot Farming -- 14. The integration of the Plots and the Collective -- 15. Household Economy and Small Farming -- 16. Plot Farming and Development of Income Differentials -- 17. Networks of Reciprocity -- 18. The 'Elite' of the Széphegy -- 19. The Invisible Population -- 20. Popular and Official Evaluation of Plot Farming -- 21. Non-Agricultural Labour -- PART 4 THE COLLECTIVE AND THE COMMUNITY -- 22. Under One Roof? -- 23. Community, Society: Institutions -- 24. Community, Society: Competing Paradigms -- 25. The Traditional Paradigm -- 26. The Socialist Paradigm -- 27. The Western Urban Paradigm -- 28. Social Differentiation -- 29. Community, Society: Voluntary Associations -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Untitled.

Editor's Introduction Originally published in Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 1995, pages 20-22. Thomas Schelling (born 1921) shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert Auman for their work analyzing conflict and cooperation using methods derived from game theory. Throughout his career, Professor Schelling has been integrally involved with the problems of international arms control – from both the academic perspective as a researcher and writer, and from the practical perspective as an advisor and consultant for diplomats and policymakers. His influence during the Cold War reached into American popular culture as he was consulted by Stanley Kubrick prior to the making of his classic film, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Professor Schelling's first paper in this journal, "Economic Reasoning and Military Science," appeared in 1960. This short paper, prepared thirty-five years later, presents Professor Schelling's Commencement remarks to the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley (his undergraduate alma mater) ten years before he received the Nobel. As the title reflects, the author seeks to identify a few of the basic truths that economists know about the world, even though these truths may not be intuitively obvious at first glance. Professor Schelling limits himself to five such truths, and they all turn out to be accounting identities.