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on Air Quality in Mexico City,” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 116, no. 1 (February 2008).

8.“Avoiding Gridlock,” The Economist, February 17, 2003.

9.“Ken’s Coup,” The Economist, March 20, 2003.

10.“How to Pay Bosses,” The Economist, November 16, 2002.

11.Floyd Norris, “Stock Options: Do They Make Bosses Cheat?” New York Times, August 5, 2005.

12.Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,” The Atlantic, May 2009.

13.John Tierney, “A Tale of Two Fisheries,” New York Times Magazine, August 27, 2000, p. 38.

14.“A Rising Tide,” The Economist, September 20, 2008.

15.Dirk Johnson, “Leaving the Farm for the Other Real World,” New York Times, November 7, 1999, p. 3.

16.Virginia Postrel, “The U.S. Tax System Is Discouraging Married Women from Working,” New York Times, November 2, 2000, p. C2.

17.Friedrich Schneider and Dominik H. Enste, “Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences,” Journal of Economic Literature, March 2000.

CHAPTER 3. GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY

1.Donald G. McNeil, Jr., “A Fouled City Puts Its Foot Down, but Carefully,” New York Times, November 9, 1999.

2.“Mum’s the Word,” The Economist, December 5, 1998.

3.“Czechs Puff Away to the Benefit of State Coffers,” United Press International, July 17, 2001.

4.Robert Frank, “Feeling Crash-Resistant in an SUV,” New York Times, May 16, 2000.

5.Katharine Q. Seelye, “Utility Buys Town It Choked, Lock, Stock and Blue Plume,” New York Times, May 13, 2002.

6.“Here’s Hoping: A Survey of Nigeria,” The Economist, January 15, 2000.

7.Blaine Harden, “Angolan Paradox: Oil Wealth Only Adds to Misery,” New York Times, April 9, 2000.

8.Barbara Crossette, “U.N. Says Bad Government Is Often the Cause of Poverty,” New York Times, April 5, 2000, p. A11.

9.John G. Fernald, “Roads to Prosperity? Assessing the Link Between Public Capital and Productivity,” American Economics Review, vol. 89, no. 3 (June 1999), pp. 619–38.

10.Jerry L. Jordan, “How to Keep Growing ‘New Economies,’” Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, August 15, 2000.

11.Barry Bearak, “In India, the Wheels of Justice Hardly Move,” New York Times, June 1, 2000.

12.Thomas L. Friedman, “I Love D.C.,” New York Times, November 7, 2000, p. A29.

13.Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).

14.Giacomo Balbinotto Neto, Ana Katarina Campelo, and Everton Nunes da Silva, “The Impact of Presumed Consent Law on Organ Donation: An Empirical Analysis from Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data,” Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Paper 050107–2 (2007).

CHAPTER 4. GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY II

1.John Markoff, “CIA Tries Foray into Capitalism,” New York Times, September 29, 1999.

2.March 6, 2001.

3.Jackie Calmes and Louise Story, “In Washington, One Bank Chief Still Holds Sway,” New York Times, January 19, 2009.

4.Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

5.Celia W. Dugger, “A Cruel Choice in New Delhi: Jobs vs. a Safer Environment,” New York Times, November 24, 2000.

6.“A Useful Poison,” The Economist, December 14, 2000.

7.“Fighting Malaria,” The Economist, May 1, 2003.

8.“A Useful Poison,” The Economist, December 14, 2000.

9.Gary Becker and Guity Nashat Becker, The Economics of Life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996).

10.Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, The Regulation of Entry, NBER Working Paper No. W7892 (National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2000).

11.Geeta Anand, “India’s Colleges Battle a Thicket of Red Tape,” Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2008.

12.Stephen Castle, “Europe Relaxes Rules on Sale of Ugly Fruits and Vegetables,” New York Times, November 13, 2008.

13.Nicholas Lemann, “The Quiet Man: How Dick Cheney Rose to Power,” The New Yorker, May 7, 2001.

14.Bruce Bartlett, “How Supply-Side Economics Trickled Down,” New York Times, April 6, 2007.

15.Greg Mankiw’s blog, March 11, 2007.

16.Rebecca M. Blank, “Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 14, no. 2 (Spring 2000).

17.Jerry L. Jordan, “How to Keep Growing ‘New Economies,’” Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, August 15, 2000.

CHAPTER 5. ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION

1.Gary Becker, The Economics of Discrimination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971).

2.Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael Stoll, “Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks, and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers,” Journal of Law and Economics, vol. XLIX (October 2006).

3.David Leonhardt, “In Health Reform, a Cancer Offers an Acid Test,” New York Times, July 8, 2009.

4.“Testing Times,” The Economist, October 19, 2000.

5.“Outsourcing: Separate and Lift,” The Economist, September 20, 1997.

6.Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Kind of Blue: In Asia, Elite Offices Show Off with Icy Temperatures,” Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2005.

7.Alan B. Krueger, “Children Smart Enough to Get into Elite Schools May Not Need to Bother,” New York Times, April 27, 2000, p. C2.

8.All of the racial profiling examples come from a provocative article on the subject: Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Color of Suspicion,” New York Times Magazine, June 20, 1999.

CHAPTER 6. PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN CAPITAL

1.Brier Dudley, “Gates Wants to Expand Mega-House,” Seattle Times, February 28, 2001.

2.“The Rich Get Richer: A Survey of India’s Economy,” The Economist, June 2, 2001.

3.Evelyn Nieves, “Homeless Defy Cities’ Drives to Move Them,” New York Times, December 7, 1999.

4.“From Boots to Electronics: Shutting Military Bases,” The Economist, June 21, 1997.

5.T. Paul Schultz, “Health and Schooling Investments in Africa,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 67–88.

6.Gary Becker, “Economic Evidence on the Value of Education,” Remarks to executives of the Lotus Development Corporation, January 1999.

7.Gary S. Becker, Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago, as reprinted in Becker, Human Capital (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 21.

8.Ibid., p. 23.

9.Roger Lowenstein, “The Inequality Conundrum,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 10, 2007.

10.Dora Costa, “The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991,” Journal of Labor Economics, January 2000.

11.All of the income inequality information, including the H. L. Mencken quotations, comes from Robert H. Frank, “Why Living in a Rich Society Makes Us Feel Poor,” New York Times Magazine, October 15, 2000.

12.Philippe Aghion, Eve Caroli, and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, “Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 37 (December 1999), pp. 1615–60.

13.Marvin Zonis, Remarks Presented at the University of Chicago Business Forecast Luncheon, December 6, 2000.

CHAPTER 7. FINANCIAL MARKETS

1.Johanna Berkman, “Harvard’s Hoard,” New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2001.

2.Richard Bradley, “Drew Gilpin Faust and the Incredible Shrinking Harvard,” Boston Magazine, June