TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitman,Glen
AU  - Dow,James Price
TI  - Economics of the undead: zombies, vampires, and the dismal science 
SN  - 1442235020
AV  - HQ801 .E334 2014
U1  - 330.0207 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Zombies
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Vampires
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Economics
KW  - Humor
N1  - 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
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