Preface -- The foundations of economic analysis -- Death by bureaucrat -- Innovation -- Flying the friendly skies? -- The mystery of wealth -- The economics of exclusion -- Supply and demand -- Sex, booze, and drugs -- The economics of obesity -- Kidneys for sale -- Are we running out of water?...

Economic history and economic systems -- Definition and classification of economic systems -- Economic systems and economic outcomes -- How economic systems change -- The setting of economic systems -- Theory of capitalism -- Theory of planned socialism -- Theory and practice of market socialism...