disc 1. The world of choices --
A market for pregnancy --
Traffic congestion-costs pricing and you --
Two-way ties between religion and economics --
Prediction markets- Windows on the future.
disc 2. Pathways for crime and crime fighting --
Terrorism as a occupational choice --
Marriage as a search market --
Procreation and parenthood --
Small choices and racial discrimination --
Cooperation and the prisoner's dilemma.
disc 3. Fairness and ultimatum game --
Myopic preferences and behavioral economics --
Altruism, charity and gifts --
Loss aversion and reference point bias --
Human herds and information cascades.
disc 4. Additction and choice --
Obesity-who bears the costs? --
The economics of natural disasters --
Sports lessons-pay, performance, tournaments --
Voting, money, and politics --
The pursuit of happiness.