Economics of the living dead, the anthology

The essays collected in this book are as humorous as they are thoughtful, as culturally relevant as they are economically sound, and provide an accessible link between a popular culture phenomenon and the key concepts necessary to building one’s understanding of economic systems large and small. It is the first book to combine economics with our society’s fascination with the undead,

Here's the table of contents:

Introduction: Living Dead in the Modern Economy, by Glen Whitman and James Dow

Part I: Soulless Mates

1. Human Girls and Vampire Boys, Part 1: Looking for Mr. Goodbite, by Glen Whitman 2. Human Girls and Vampire Boys, Part 2: ’Til Death Do Us Part, by Glen Whitman

Part II: Apocalyptonomics

3. Packing for the Zombie Apocalypse, by James Dow 4. Eating Brains and Breaking Windows, by Steven Horwitz and Sarah Skwire 5. To Truck, Barter… And Eat Your Brains!!! Pursuing Prosperity in a Post-Productive World, by Brian Hollar 6. What Happens Next? Endgames of a Zombie Apocalypse, by Kyle William Bishop, David Tufte, and Mary Jo Tufte 7. Order, Coordination, and Collective Action among the Undead, by Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

Part III: Blood Money

8. Investing Secrets of the Undead, by James Dow 9. Zombification Insurance, by Eleanor Brown and Robert Prag 10. Monsters of Capital: Vampires, Zombies, and Consumerism, by Lorna Piatti-Farnell 11. Trading with the Undead: A Study in Specialization and Comparative Advantage, by Darwyyn Deyo and David T. Mitchell 12. Buy or Bite?, by Enrique Guerra-Pujol 13. To Shoot or to Stake, That Is the Question: The Market for Anti-Vampire Weapons, by Charlotte Weil and Sébastien Lecou 14. Taxation of the Undead: Non-Sentient Entities, by Joseph Mandarino

Part IV: The Dead Body Politic

15. Tragedy of the Blood Commons: The Case for Privatizing the Humans, by Glen Whitman 16. Zombies as an Invasive Species, by Michael E. O’Hara 17. What Would the Reasonable Man Do in a World Gone Mad?, by Brian Hollar 18. Brain-Dead vs. Undead: Public Ignorance and the Political Economy of Responses to Vampires and Zombies, by Ilya Somin 19. Sinking Our Teeth into Public Policy Economics: A Taste of Immortality, by Fabien Medvecky 20. Where Oh Where Have the Vampires Gone? An Extension of the Tiebout Hypothesis to the Undead, by A.L. Phillips, M.C. Phillips, and G.M. Phillips

Part V: Brain Food

21. The Economics of Bloodlust, by Ian Chadd 22. Between Gods and Monsters: Reason, Instinct, and the Artificial Vampire, by Daniel Farhat 23. Killing Time: Dracula and Social Discoordination, by Hollis Robbins