EconoPower : how a new generation of economists is transforming the world / Mark Skousen

Contents:
Introduction: A Golden Age of Discovery
Pt. 1. Personal Finance: Earning, Saving, Investing, and Retiring
Ch. 1. Economist Discovers a Painless Way to Triple Your Savings Rate: The$90 Ch. 2. Modern Portfolio Theory: Can You Beat the Market?
Ch. 3. Yes, You Can Beat the Market ... with Less Risk
Ch. 4. High-Return Investing: Lessons from Yale's Endowment Fund
Ch. 5. How Chile Created a Worker-Capitalist Revolution
Ch. 6. The Call for Social Security Reform
Ch. 7. $4,000 a Month from Social Security?
Ch. 8. How the Private Sector Solved Its Own Pension Crisis
Ch. 9. The Four Sources of Happiness: Is Money One of Them?
Pt. 2. Economists Enter the Corporate Boardroom
Ch. 10. Improving the Bottom Line with EVA
Ch. 11. How Ludwig von Mises Helped Create the World's Largest Private Company
Pt. 3. Solving Domestic Problems
Ch. 12. Look, Ma'am, No Traffic Jams!
Ch. 13. Patient Power: The New Consumer-Driven Medical Plan
Ch. 14. Back to Basics: Competition Enters the Classroom
Ch. 15. Chicago Gun Show
Ch. 16. Economists Catch Auction Fever
Ch. 17. If You Built It Privately ... They Will Come: The Economics of Sports Stadiums
Ch. 18. Who Is Henry Spearman? Economics of the Mystery Novel
Pt. 4. Solving International Problems
Ch. 19. Eco-nomics Debate: Angry Planet or Beautiful World?
Ch. 20. The Population Bomb: Economists Enter the Malthusian Debate
Ch. 21. A Private-Sector Solution to Extreme Poverty
Ch. 22. Poverty and Wealth: India versus Hong Kong
Ch. 23. How Real Is the Asian Economic Miracle?
Ch. 24. Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?
Ch. 25. The Irish Economic Miracle: Can We Grow Faster?
Ch. 26. The Marginal Tax Revolution: The Laffer Curve Goes Global
Ch. 27. The Debate over Economic Inequality: The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get ...
Ch. 28. One Graph Says It All: The Development of the Economic Freedom Index
Ch. 29. Amazing Graph: Economists Enter Sacred Ground
Ch. 30. Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men: The Case for Religious Competition
Pt. 5. Predicting the Future
Ch. 31. New Yale Forecasting Model: Has the Irving Fisher Curse Been Lifted?
Ch. 32. Forecasting Elections: Economists Do It Better!
Ch. 33. What Drives the Economy and Stocks: Consumer Spending or Business Investment?
Ch. 34. The Midas Metal: A Golden Comeback
Ch. 35. Is Another Great Depression Possible?
Ch. 36. Today's Most Influential Economist?
Ch. 37. Economics for the 21st Century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.