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The traveling economist : using economics to think about what makes us all so different and the same / Todd A. Knoop, PhD.
Lippincott Library HB171 .K626 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knoop, Todd A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economic policy.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 332 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Why Do the Haves Have and the Have-nots Have Less? 1
- Chapter 2 Why Are Drivers in Other Countries So Much Worse Than Back Home? 31
- Chapter 3 Why Are There More Workers Than Patrons at This Coffee House? The Tradeoff between Capital and Labor 61
- Chapter 4 $50 Billion to Ride the Bus!?! How Governments Can Kill Growth or Help It to Thrive 95
- Chapter 5 Nothing Needs Reform as Much as Other People: Culture and Economics 131
- Chapter 6 What's a Landline? Technological Diffusion around the World 167
- Chapter 7 Best Price for You! The Economics of Haggling 197
- Chapter 8 I Think That I Shall Never See Any Economics as Lovely as a Tree: Nature and Economics 225
- Chapter 9 Who Owns the Space Behind My Seat? Traveling Economics 245
- Chapter 10 Coming Home 271.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440852367
- 1440852367
- OCLC:
- 959034483
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