Fair play: What your child can teach you about economics, values, and the meaning of life/ by Steven E. Landsburg

Includes appendix and index

1. The economist as parent and the parent as economist --2. The lessons of the playground --3. What cayley knows --4. authority --5. What life has to offer --6. Cultural biases --7. Fairness I. The grandfather fallacy --8. Fairness II. The symmetry principle --9. The perfect tax --10. The perfect tax, deconstructed --11. Responsibility: who ya gonna blame? --12. Bequests --13. People wanted --14. The third r --15. The arithmetic of government debt --16. The arithmetic of discrimination --17. The arithmetic of conservation --18. What my daughter taught me about money --19. What my daughter taught me about trade --20. Advice to an economist's daughter.