Table of Contents

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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 (Hover for summary)
2. Human Girls and Vampire Boys, Part 2: ’Til Death Do Us Part, by Glen Whitman (Hover for summary)

Part II: Apocalyptonomics

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

Part III: Blood Money

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

Part IV: The Dead Body Politic

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

Part V: Brain Food

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

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