The economics of Public Issues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pearson Education Inc. ,
2018.
New York : Pearson, [2017] |
| Edition: | 20th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.