"A highly reasonable, lightly fun introduction to thinking like an economist. When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or pandemics, they do so in an impersonal, detached way: what's the most low-cost way to maximize good and minimize bad? These trade-offs constitute...

Introduction: applying economic reasoning to the law -- Property -- Should body parts be salable? Moore v. the Regents of the University of California (1990) and the market for human tissue -- Can anyone own the sunlight? Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Inc. (1959) and the assignment and...