Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't (41 page)

Philadelphia, Pa.

Pickens, T. Boone

Pierce, Paul

Pinochet, Augusto

Pittsburgh, University of

political action committees (PACs)

politicians: free market, distrust of by; reputation and; special interests and

pollution

poor: judicial anti-corporate hostility and; oil prices and; price discrimination and

Popular Radio
magazine

Populist Party, Populists

Porsche

Powell, Naomi

predation: Airbus and; American Airlines and; Brown & Williamson cigarette makers and; education and; government intervention and; large chains and; monopolies and; NASA and; post offices and; shorting and; weather forecasting and; Western Union and

price controls: black markets and; effects of; gasoline shortages (1970s) and; government and; oil and; oil prices and; pharmaceutical industry and; shortages and; as short-term remedy

price discrimination: airline tickets and; availability of products and services and; benefits of; business travelers and; colas, sale of and; full- vs. self-service gas and; innovation and; monopolies and; poor and; publishing industry and; quality and; in restaurants; society’s wealth and; textbook sales and

price gouging: hotels and; oil prices and; supply and demand and

“The Probability that a Real-Estate Agent is Cheating You” (Dubner)

Proctor & Gamble

professional licensing.
See
licensing, professional

profit: government-owned companies and; market share vs.

property taxation, elimination of

Public Campaign

Public Opinion Strategies

public schools.
See
education

publishing industry: copyrights and; monopolies and

radio broadcasting

Rasmussen Research

Reagan, Ronald

real estate agents: incentives for honesty and; Ku Klux Klan and; licensing, professional and

Rendell, Ed

rent control

Republican Party, Republicans: African Americans and; voter turnout, suppression of and

reputation: businesses and; campaign finance and; corporate fraud and; corporate honesty and; crime and; democracy and; free market and; importance of; as incentive for honesty; incumbents, protection of and; misunderstanding; playing by the rules and; politicians and; societal role of; transfer of; in universities

restaurants: inventory costs of; liquor, price of at; price discrimination in; smoking bans in; time cost of tables in

Reyataz

Reyes, Anita

Rice University

right-to-carry laws.
See
concealed-carry laws

Roberts, Russell

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller Commission on Population and the American Future

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Ruderman, S. G. “Rudy,”

Russia

Sanders, Bob

Saturday, Jeff

Saudi Arabia

savings and loan crises (1980s)

Scalia, Antonin

Schumer, Charles

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

search-and-rescue teams

secondary markets, monopolies and

self-interest, economic

shortages: 1970s gasoline; Communism and; price controls and

shorting

Sierra Club

Singapore

Skogan, Wesley

Smith, Adam; economic self-interest and; licensing, professional and; prices and incentives and

Smith, Jeffery

Smith, Robert

smoking bans

Social Security

Soros, George

Souter, David H.

South Africa

South Carolina

Southwest Airlines

Soviet Union

special interests: campaign finance and; politicians and

Standard Oil

Stanford University

State University of New York

St. Clair County, Ill.

Stein, Ben

Stern, Howard

Stevens, John Paul

Stewart, Martha

St. Louis County, Mo.

stock diversification

Stratmann, Thomas

Streiff, Christian

Stupid White Men
(Moore)

subsidies, government: concealed-carry laws and; education and; free-riding problems and; government intervention and; LoJack antitheft device and; taxation vs.

suffrage.
See
voting; women’s suffrage

Sunoco Gas Station

supply and demand: oil prices and; price gouging and

Supreme Court, U. S.: abortion and; campaign finance and; death penalty and; eminent domain and;
Miranda v. Arizona
and; monopolies and; reputation and

Swarthmore College

Swartz, Mark H.

Sweden

Switzer, Barry

Synon, Mary Ellen

Syverson, Chad

Taborsky, Edward

Taneja, Krishan

Target

taxation: black markets and; as coercive; oil and; poll; property; subsidies vs.

Taylor, Jason

Texaco

Texas

Texas, University of

textbook sales

Thayer, George

Thomas, Clarence

Thuwe, Inga

TIAA-CREF

tobacco industry; predation and; smoking bans and

totalitarianism, education and

Toyota

travel: airline; price discrimination and

Treasury Department, U. S.

Trump, Donald

Tuck Business School

“TV Nation,”

Tyco International Ltd.

United Kingdom

United States: crime rates ina; education, public in; oil industry in; out-of-wedlock births in; pharmaceutical industry in

U. S. Civil Rights Commission

U. S. Forest Service

U. S. Postal Service

U. S. Sentencing Commission

universities: funding for; hiring practices of; incentives and; private interests and public policy in; reputation and; tenure system in

UPS Overnight

Utah

Vermont

Vietnam War

Virginia

vote buying

voter fraud: absentee ballots and; African Americans and; in Florida; hot spots for; identification requirements and; pre-election day voting and; registration by mail and.
See also
voting

voting: education, public and; Election 2000 and; felon; gender gap and; incentives and; literacy tests and; media and; poll taxes and; punch-card; secret ballots and; voter fatigue; voter turnout, suppression of and; voting machines and; Voting Rights Act (1965) and.
See also
voter fraud; women’s suffrage

Voting Rights Act (1965)

wages: licensing, professional and; minimum wage regulations and

Waksal, Samuel

Wal-Mart

Washington, D. C.

Washington, University of

Washington State

Watergate

The Wealth of Nations
(Smith)

weather forecasting

Weil, Douglas

welfare

Western Union

Wharton Business School

Whitley, John,

Will, George

Wilson, Albert J.

Wilson, James Q.

Wisconsin

women’s suffrage: effect of; government and; marital status and; voting turnout and.
See also
voting

worker compensation insurance

worker’s rights

WorldCom

Wyeth Laboratories

Wyoming

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Lott, John R.
Freedomnomics / John Lott.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-596-98133-1

1. Free enterprise. I. Title.
HB95.L68 2007
330.12’2—dc22

 

2007011502

 

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