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  Babywise (Ezzo)

  bagels, purchase of

  Baruch College

  baseball

  basketball

  beauty pageants

  Becker, Gary

  “Beer on the Beach” study (Thaler)

  Before His Time (Moore)

  behavioral economics

  Bennett, William

  Bias, Len

  Bible

  Bill Bennett’s Morning in America

  birth control

  Birth of a Nation, The

  birth rates:

  decline in

  delivery methods and

  increase in

  see also abortion

  Black Gangster Disciple Nation

  blackjack

  black market

  Blackmun, Harry A.

  Black Panthers

  Black Power movement

  Blagojevich, Rod

  Blandon, Oscar Danilo

  Blank Slate (Pinker)

  Bledsoe, Tempestt

  Blodget, Henry

  blood donors

  Bloomberg, Michael

  body parts:

  donation and transplant of

  values assigned to

  Booty (gang member)

  Boston Celtics

  Boston Tea Party

  Bouza, Anthony V.

  Brady Act (1993)

  Brandeis, Louis D.

  Brando, Marlon

  Bratton, William

  Brazelton, T. Berry

  breast feeding

  bribes

  Brown, John

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  Bulger, Peggy

  Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.

  Bush, George W.

  Caesars Palace

  calculus

  California, University of:

  at Berkeley

  at Los Angeles

  at San Diego

  California Institute of Technology

  Camerer, Colin

  Canada

  canola oil

  capitalism

  capital punishment

  carjacking

  caskets, purchase of

  “Catching Cheating Teachers” (Levitt and Jacobs)

  CDC abortion measure

  Ceauşescu, Elena

  Ceauşescu, Nicolae

  Central Florida, University of

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  cheating

  bribes and

  in business

  detection of

  holidays and

  honor system and

  human nature and

  to lose

  mechanics of

  morale and

  as primordial economic act

  in sports

  by students

  by teachers, professors, and coaches

  Chesterton, G. K.

  chewing gum

  Chicago, University of

  Graduate School of Business

  Chicago Cubs

  Chicago price theory

  Chicago Public Schools (CPS)

  Chicago Sun-Times

  Chicago White Sox of 1919

  children:

  abandonment of

  adoption of

  conflicting theories on raising of

  in day care

  death of

  dependent

  education of

  family environment and

  health and development of

  IQs of

  low birthweight of

  naming of

  nature vs. nurture and

  neglect and abuse of

  parental influence on

  personalities of

  punishment of

  reading to and by

  rural vs. suburban and urban

  safety of

  underprivileged

  unwanted

  see also students

  civil liberties

  civil rights movement

  Civil War, U.S.

  Clarke, Jim

  Clinton, Bill

  coaches

  Colorado Adoption Project

  Columbia University

  Comiskey, Charles

  Communist Party (Romania)

  concealed-weapons laws

  condoms

  Confederate Army

  Congress, U.S.

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Conley, Dalton

  contraception

  conventional wisdom

  of experts and journalists

  inaccuracy of

  questioning of

  shifts in

  sloppy formation of

  Cook County, Ill.

  corporate scandals

  Corzine, Jon

  Cosby, Bill

  Cosby Show, The

  Council on Bioethics

  crack cocaine

  changes in market for

  nicknames for

  crib death

  crime

  abortion and

  African Americans and

  broken window theory and

  corporate

  deterrence of

  drug-related

  incentives for

  information

  minor

  predictions of

  property

  rising rates of

  street

  teenage

  underreporting of

  victims of

  violent

  white-collar

  see also drug dealers; specific crimes

  crime reduction

  aging population and

  capital punishment and

  drug market changes and

  gun control and

  imprisonment and

  legalized abortion and

  police and

  strong economy and

  theories of

  tougher laws and

  criminal mobs

  criminologists

  Crooked Timber

  Daily Racing Form

  Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The

  Danielovitch, Issur

  data:

  chains of

  on early childhood education

  game show

  online dating

  patterns in

  recording of

  selection of

  sports

  testing

  see also information

  dating, online

  day-care centers

  fines for late pickups at

  death:

  accidental

  of children

  drowning

  risks vs. fear of

  see also capital punishment; homicide

  Death Benefit Association

  “Death’s Waiting List”

  Declaration of Independence

  deflation

  Dershowitz, Alan

  Detroit

  diets

  DiIulio, John J., Jr.

  Dinkins, David

  discrimination

  age

  detection and analysis of

  ethnic and religious

  gender

  information-based

  racial

  taste-based

  unfashionable

  DNA sampling

  doctors

  dogs

  Donohue, John

  Douglas, Kirk

  Dresden, Germany

  drug dealers

  African Americans as

  Colombian connection of

  daily life of

  incentives of

  income of

  living with mothers by

  organization and hierarchy of

  recordkeeping of

  risks of

  turf wars of

  weapons of

  drugs:

  guns and

  homicide and

  in sports

  see also cra
ck cocaine; drug dealers; heroin

  Duggan, W. Dennis

  Dukakis, Michael

  Duke, Dan

  Duke, David

  Duncan, Arne

  DuPont

  Dymally, Mervyn

  Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS)

  econometrics

  “Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances, An” (Levitt and Venkatesh)

  economics:

  behavioral

  black culture and

  classical

  definitions of

  “identity” in

  incentives and

  morality vs.

  science of measurement and

  tools of

  unorthodox approach to

  see also money

  “Economics of ‘Acting White,’ The” (Fryer)

  “Economics of Sexuality, The” (Francis)

  Economist

  economists

  voting and

  economy:

  global

  of 1990s

  strength of

  education

  early childhood

  parental

  see also schools; testing

  Education Department, U.S.

  Ehrlich, Isaac

  Ehrlich, Paul

  Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Asinof)

  Eisner, Manuel

  elections

  campaign spending in

  campaign spending on

  candidate appeal in

  of 1948

  of 1989

  of 1990

  of 2004

  race and

  employment

  Enron

  environmental hazards

  Epstein, Richard

  ESPN

  Everson, Mark

  evil, resisting of

  experts:

  conventional wisdom and

  exploitation and abuse by

  incentives of

  information of

  media and

  on parenting

  predictions of

  self-interest of

  shrinking gap between public and

  Exxon Valdez

  Ezzo, Gary

  Feldman, Paul

  Fields, W. C.

  fines

  flame-retardant pajamas

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  football

  Foote, Chris

  Forbes, Steve

  Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Tokyo)

  Fox, James Alan

  Francis, Andrew

  freakonomics

  Freakonomics Blog

  freakonomics.com/blog/

  French Roast

  Friedman, Milton

  fructose, granulated

  Fryer, Roland G., Jr.

  funeral directors

  Funk, Patricia

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  gambling

  game theory

  General Motors

  Georgia, University of, Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball course at

  Gertler, Paul

  Giuliani, Rudolph

  Gladwell, Malcolm

  Global Crossing

  Goetz, Chris

  Goldberg, Michael

  Golisano, Thomas

  gonorrhea

  Google

  Goolsbee, Austan

  Grace, Mark

  Grant, Ulysses

  Grateful Dead

  Green, Ben

  green revolution

  Greenspan, Alan

  Griffith, D. W.

  Groseclose, Tim

  Grubman, Jack

  gun control

  guns:

  availability of

  buyback of

  definition of

  drugs and

  homicides and

  illegal possession of

  swimming pool deaths vs. deaths by

  Guthrie, Woody

  halitosis

  Hammermesh, Daniel

  Hannah, Daryl

  Harrick, Jim, Jr.

  Harrick, Jim, Sr.

  Harris, Judith Rich

  Harvard University

  Society of Fellows at

  headphones

  Head Start

  health concerns

  health insurance

  heart disease

  Heilbroner, Robert

  heroin

  Hillis, David

  Hirohito, Emperor

  History of the American People, A (Wilson)

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hitsch, Günter J.

  Hoboken, N.J.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holocaust

  Holt, L. Emmett

  homelessness

  expensive headphones and

  homicide

  correlation of police to

  drug-related

  falling rates of

  guns and

  race and

  homosexuality

  honesty

  innate

  honor system

  horse racing

  horses

  Hortaçsu, Ali

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  Huffington, Michael

  Hulbert, Ann