The economics of public issues / Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass C. North.

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.