The economics of public issues /
Miller, Roger LeRoy,
The economics of public issues / Roger LeRoy Miller, Research Professor of Economics, University of Texas; Arlington, Daniel K. Benjamin, Clemson University, South Carolina, and PERC, Bozeman, Montana, Douglass C. North, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri. - 20th - N.York Pearson 2018 - xiv,256 p. - The Pearson series in economics .
Revised edition of the authors' The economics of public issues, [2016]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The foundations of economic analysis -- Death by bureaucrat -- Innovation -- Flying the friendly skies? -- The mystery of wealth -- The economics of exclusion -- Supply and demand -- Sex, booze, and drugs -- The economics of obesity -- Kidneys for sale -- Are we running out of water? -- Bankrupt landlords, from sea to shining sea -- Labor markets -- Das kapital in the twenty-first century -- (why) are women paid less? -- The effects of the minimum wage -- The (dis)incentives of high taxes -- Market structures -- The platform economy -- Contracts, combinations, and conspiracies -- Coffee, tea, or tuition-free? -- Keeping the competition out -- Political economy -- Health insurance for all . . . or maybe not -- The deception of green energy -- The fight over genetically modified foods -- Student loans -- The graying of america -- For whom the roads are tolled -- Property rights and the environment -- What to do about the climate? -- Save that species -- Ethanol madness -- The death of recycling -- Globalization and economic prosperity -- The economics of the big mac -- Globalization and the wealth of america -- The $750,000 steelworker -- Glossary -- Selected references -- Index.
9780134531984 0134531981
2017021881
Economics.
Industrial policy.
Economic policy.
HB171.M5 2018
The economics of public issues / Roger LeRoy Miller, Research Professor of Economics, University of Texas; Arlington, Daniel K. Benjamin, Clemson University, South Carolina, and PERC, Bozeman, Montana, Douglass C. North, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri. - 20th - N.York Pearson 2018 - xiv,256 p. - The Pearson series in economics .
Revised edition of the authors' The economics of public issues, [2016]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The foundations of economic analysis -- Death by bureaucrat -- Innovation -- Flying the friendly skies? -- The mystery of wealth -- The economics of exclusion -- Supply and demand -- Sex, booze, and drugs -- The economics of obesity -- Kidneys for sale -- Are we running out of water? -- Bankrupt landlords, from sea to shining sea -- Labor markets -- Das kapital in the twenty-first century -- (why) are women paid less? -- The effects of the minimum wage -- The (dis)incentives of high taxes -- Market structures -- The platform economy -- Contracts, combinations, and conspiracies -- Coffee, tea, or tuition-free? -- Keeping the competition out -- Political economy -- Health insurance for all . . . or maybe not -- The deception of green energy -- The fight over genetically modified foods -- Student loans -- The graying of america -- For whom the roads are tolled -- Property rights and the environment -- What to do about the climate? -- Save that species -- Ethanol madness -- The death of recycling -- Globalization and economic prosperity -- The economics of the big mac -- Globalization and the wealth of america -- The $750,000 steelworker -- Glossary -- Selected references -- Index.
9780134531984 0134531981
2017021881
Economics.
Industrial policy.
Economic policy.
HB171.M5 2018