The traveling economist
Subtitle: using economics to think about what makes us all so different and the same
By: Todd A. Knoop, PhD
Publisher: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781440852367
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Globalization; Technological innovations; Economic policy; Economics; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Why do the haves have and the have-nots have less?; title: Why are drivers in other countries so much worse than back home?; title: Why are there more workers than patrons at this coffee house? : the tradeoff between capital and labor; title: $50 billion to ride the bus!?! : how governments can kill growth or help it to thrive; title: Nothing needs reform as much as other people : culture and economics; title: What's a landline? : technological diffusion around the world; title: Best price for you! : the economics of haggling; title: I think that I shall never see any economics as lovely as a tree : nature and economics; title: Who owns the space behind my seat? : traveling economics; title: Coming home.