The economics of public issues / Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass C. North.
Publication details: Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2003.Edition: 13th edDescription: ix, 230 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0321118731 (alk. paper)
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Table of contents
preface vii
Part one: The Foundations of Economic Analysis 1
1. Killer Airbags 4
2. Terrible Trade off 10
3. Flying the Friendly Skies 17
4. The cost of Terrorism 23
Part Two: Supply and Demand 29
5. Sex, Booze and Drugs 32
6. Is water Different 40
7. Slave Redemption in Sudan
8. Choice and Life 52
9. Smoking and Smuggling 60
Part Three: Non price Rationing 65
10.Bankrupt landlords from Sea to Shining Sea 68
11.rationing Health Care 76
12.The Effects of the Minimum Wage 82
13. Light out in California 86
Part Four: Market Structures 91
14. The Internet Economy 95
15. Contracts, Combinations and Conspiracies' 101
16. Coffee, Tea, or Tuition free 106
17. The Perils of Product Differentiation 112
18. Keeping the competition out 117
Part Five: Political Economy
19.Killer cars and the Rise of the SUV 126
20. Superfund Follies 131
21. Crime and Punishment 136
22.The Graying and America 141
23. The economic of Weather Forecasting 147
Part Six: Property Rights and the Environment 152
24. The Trashman Cometh 155
25. Bye Bye Bison163
26.Smog Merchants 171
27. Greenhouse Economics 177
part Seven: Global and Macroeconomics affairs 183
28. The Opposition to Tree trade 187
29. The S750,000 job 193
30. The Euro 198
3.1Monentary Policy and Interest Rates 203
32. The Disappearing Surplus 200
Index.219
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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