Title: Cheap motels and a hot plate
Subtitle: an economist's travelogue
First published: 2006
Description: Retiring from 32 years as a professor of economics, the author and his wife sell most of their possessions and travel the United States. This is an account of their adventures and an examination of work and inequality , race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.
Subjects: Anecdotes, History, Equality, Description and travel, Economists, Travel, Environmental conditions, Economic conditions, Social conditions, United states, social conditions, Ecology, Economic history
Places: United States
Time periods: 21st century, 1980-, 2001-, 2001-2009
LC classification: HC106.83 .Y38 2006