Tim Harford has written books about puzzling inconsistencies in our society. His book, The Undercover Economist, discusses such conundrums as: who pays for your coffee? What supermarkets do not want you to know, rotten investments and rotten eggs. These are teasers. This same author also has a series of podcasts under the title “Cautionary Tales”, which explore issues such as: the deadly airship race, LaLa land, Galileo’s warning, DANGER: Rocks ahead. This course will report on some of these unique exposes of everyday life and its oddities. $17
