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More Sex Is Safer Sex

Disciplines:
economics
logic
public health
culture/contrarianism

Summary

Steven Landsburg's 2007 collection of economic arguments leading to counterintuitive conclusions — including the title thesis (that more sexually active people expanding the pool of cautious partners reduces HIV transmission).

Core Contribution

Creates the epidemiological economics argument — the title thesis (that cautious people who abstain from sex are actually increasing average infection rates by leaving the pool to riskier partners; their sexual participation would lower average risk) is the most counterintuitive application of economic logic to public health.

Historical Influences

Gary Becker Milton Friedman

Intellectual Lineage

Steven LandsburgFree Press

Allied Works

The Armchair Economist Freakonomics

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Contrarian popular economics

Intellectual Posterity

More Sex Is Safer Sex Contrarian economics genre

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