Econopower : how a new generation of economists is transforming the world / Mark Skousen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.

Introduction : A golden age of discovery -- part 1. Personal finance : earning, saving, investing and retiring -- chapter 1. Economist discovers a painless way to triple your savings rate : the $90 billion opportunity -- chapter 2. Modern portfolio theory : can you beat the market? -- chapter 3. Yes, you can beat the market... with less risk -- chapter 4. High-return investing : lessons from Yale's Endowment Fund -- chapter 5. How Chile created a worker-capitalist revolution -- chapter 6. The call for Social Security reform -- chapter 7. $4,000 a month from Social Security? -- chapter 8. How the private sector solved its own pension crisis -- chapter 9. The four sources of happiness : is money one of them? -- part 2. Economists enter the corporate boardroom -- chapter 10. Improving the bottom line with EVA -- chapter 11. How Ludwig von Mises helped create the world's largest private company -- part 3. Solving domestic problems -- chapter 12. Look, ma'am, no traffic jams -- chapter 13. Patient power : the new consumer-driven medicine plan -- chapter 14. Back to basics : competition enters the classroom -- chapter 15. Chicago gun show -- chapter 16. Economists catch auction fever -- chapter 17. If you built it privately... they will come : the economics of sports stadiums -- chapter 18. Who is Henry Spearman? Economics of the mystery novel --

part 4. Solving international problems -- chapter 19. Eco-nomics debate : angry planet or beautiful world? -- chapter 20. The population bomb : economists enter the Malthusian debate -- chapter 21. A private-sector solution to extreme poverty -- chapter 22. Poverty and wealth : India versus Hong Kong -- chapter 23. How real is the Asian economic miracle? -- chapter 24. Whatever happened to the Egyptians? -- chapter 25. The Irish economic miracle : can we grow faster? -- chapter 26. The marginal tax revolution : the Laffer curve goes global -- chapter 27. The debate over economic inequality : the rich get richer and the poor get... -- chapter 28. One graph says it all : the development of the economic freedom index -- chapter 29. Amazing graph : economists enter sacred ground -- chapter 30. Peace on earth, good will toward men : the case for religious competition -- part 5. Predicting the future -- chapter 31. New Yale forecasting model : has the Irving Fisher curse been lifted? -- chapter 32. Forecasting elections : economists do it better! -- chapter 33. What drives the economy and stocks : consumer spending or business investment? -- chapter 34. The Midas metal : a golden comeback -- chapter 35. Is another Great Depression possible? -- chapter 36. Today's most influential economist? -- chapter 37. Economics for the 21st century.