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The Economics of Public Issues

ISBN: 9780321030689 | 0321030680
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
A superb supplement to economic learning, The Economics of Public Issues features short chapters that provide application of economics to current issues in everyday life. The authors examine the principles of economic analysis; supply and demand; market structures; and labor and human capital, to contemporary issues such as "killer airbags", bankrupt landlords, merger mania, and the effects of the minimum wage. Now in its Eleventh Edition, this always-topical text continues to inform and elucidate.
Prefaceix
Part One The Foundations of Economic Analysis1(28)
1 Killer Airbags
4(5)
2 Terrible Trade-off
... MORE9(6)
3 Flying the Friendly Skies?
15(6)
4 Choosing Crime
21(8)
Part Two Supply and Demand29(42)
5 Sex, Booze, and Drugs
32(8)
6 Is Water Different?
40(6)
7 Rationing Health Care
46(6)
8 Choice and Life
52(8)
9 Bankrupt Landlords, from Sea to Shining Sea
60(6)
10 Getting Scalped
66(5)
Part Three Market Structures71(30)
11 Pure Competition on Wall Street
75(6)
12 Contracts, Combinations, and Conspiracies
81(5)
13 Merger Mania
86(5)
14 Keeping the Competition Out
91(5)
15 Coffee, Tea, or Tuition-Free?
96(5)
Part Four Labor and Human Capital101(26)
16 The Economic Returns to Education
103(4)
17 Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
107(5)
18 Disposable Workers
112(6)
19 Million Dollar Men
118(5)
20 The Effects of the Minimum Wage
123(4)
Part Five Political Economy127(34)
21 Foreign or Domestic? Ask a Bureaucrat
130(6)
22 Education and Choice
136(8)
23 Crime and Punishment
144(5)
24 The Graying of America
149(6)
25 Inner City High Finance
155(6)
Part Six Externalities and the Environment161(30)
26 The Trashman Cometh
164(8)
27 Bye, Bye, Bison
172(7)
28 Smog Merchants
179(5)
29 Greenhouse Economics
184(7)
Part Seven The International Scene191(18)
30 The Benefits of Free Trade
193(5)
31 The Opposition to Free Trade
198(5)
32 The $750,000 Job
203(6)
Glossary209(8)
Index217

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