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  • The Economics of Urban Transportation

    by Kenneth A. Small, Erik T. Verhoef, Robin Lindsey ...
    This new edition of the seminal textbook The Economics of Urban Transportation incorporates the latest research affecting the design, implementation, pricing, and control of transport systems in towns and cities. The book offers an economic framework for understanding the societal impacts and policy implications of many factors including congestion, traffic safety, climate change, air quality, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Road Work

    A New Highway Pricing and Investment Policy

    by Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, Carol A. Evans ...
    America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. The only consensus that seems to have emerged is that public spending must be increased.Improving our highway system and its financing will not be easy. Road Work ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

    by Katharine L Bradbury, Anthony Downs, Kenneth A. Small ...
    During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the death” of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? This ambitious book tackles these questions by analyzing the nature and extent of urban decline and growth of large U.S. cities. It includes ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... Read more

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  • Race for Profit

    How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    by Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

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  • Just Action

    How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law

    by Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein ...
    The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How the Economy Works

    Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

    by Roger E. A. Farmer ...
    "Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? In How the Economy Works, one of our ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

    Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and how where we are today fits in this historical timeline. Its short chapters reflect the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Prosperity for All

    How to Prevent Financial Crises

    by Roger E.A. Farmer ...
    In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment and low growth rates. According to Roger E. A. Farmer, these theories can be divided into two leading schools of thought: the ideas of pre-Keynesian scholars who blame the recession on bad economic policy, and the suggestions of "New Keynesian" scholars ... Read more

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  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States

    How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Change Everything

    by Stephen Moore, Rex A. Sinquefield, Travis H. Brown, Arthur Laffer ...
    A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reformAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation. A passionate argument for tax reform, the book shows that even states with small populations can benefit enormously with the right policies. The authors’ ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Out of Work

    Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

    by Richard K Vedder, Lowell E. Gallaway ...
    Argues the cause of unemployment may be the government itselfRedefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself. ... Read more

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