Economics of the undead : zombies, vampires, and the dismal science / edited by Glen Whitman and James Dow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: living dead and the modern economy / Glen Whitman and James Dow -- Soulless mates -- Human girls and vampire boys, Part 1: looking for Mr. Goodbite / Glen Whitman -- Human girls and vampire boys, part 2: 'til death do us part / Glen Whitman -- Apocalyptonomics -- Packing for the zombie apocalypse / James Dow -- Eating brains and breaking windows / Steven Horwitz and Sarah Skwire -- To truck, barter and eat your brains!!! : pursuing prosperity in a post-productive world / Brian Hollar -- What happens next? : endgames of a zombie apocalypse / Kyle William Bishop, David Tufte, and Mary Jo Tufte -- Order, coordination, and collective action among the undead / Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano -- Blood money -- Investing secrets of the undead / James Dow -- Zombification insurance / Eleanor Brown and Robert Prag -- Monsters of capital : vampires, zombies, and consumerism / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- Trading with the undead : a study in specialization and comparative advantage / Darwyyn Deyo and David T. Mitchell -- Buy or bite? / Enrique Guerra-Pujol -- To shoot or to stake, that is the question : the market for anti-vampire weapons / Charlotte Weil and Sébastien Lecou -- Taxation of the undead : nonsentient entities / Joseph Mandarino -- The dead body politic -- Tragedy of the blood commons : the case for privatizing the humans / Glen Whitman -- Zombies as an invasive species : a resource economics perspective / Michael E. O'Hara -- Post-apocalyptic law : what would the reasonable man do in a world gone mad? / Brian Hollar -- Brain-dead vs. undead : public ignorance and the political economy of responses to vampires and zombies / Ilya Somin -- Sinking our teeth into public policy economics : a taste of immortality / Fabien Medvecky -- Where, oh where have the vampires gone? : an extension of the Tiebout hypothesis to the undead / A.L. Phillips, M.C. Phillips, and G.M. Phillips -- Brain food -- The economics of bloodlust / Ian Chadd -- Between gods and monsters : reason, instinct, and the artificial vampire / Daniel Farhat -- Killing time : Dracula and social discoordination / Hollis Robbins -- Pop culture bibliography -- Contributor biographies.