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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of...
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"Freakonomics" revealed much about our society. Now, one of Americaas most respected economists reveals how "individuals" can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily lifeaat home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual...
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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased...
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