The economics of public issues /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Roger LeRoy
Other Authors: Benjamin, Daniel K., North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Pearson/Addison-Wesley, c2008.
Edition:Fifteenth ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Death by bureaucrat
  • Ethanol madness
  • Flying the friendly skies?
  • The mystery of wealth
  • Sex, booze, and drugs
  • Expanding waistlines
  • Is water different?
  • Slave redemption in Sudan
  • Smoking and smuggling
  • Bankrupt landlords, from sea to shining sea
  • (Why) are women paid less?
  • The effects of the minimum wage
  • Immigration, superstars, and poverty in America
  • A farewell to jobs
  • Monopsony and competition in health care
  • Big oil, big oil prices?
  • Contracts, combinations, and conspiracies
  • Coffee, tea, or tuition-free?
  • College costs (... and costs and costs)
  • Keeping the competition out
  • Raising less corn and more hell
  • Killer cars and the rise of the SUV
  • Crime and punishment
  • The graying of America
  • Heavenly highway
  • The trashman cometh
  • Bye-bye, bison
  • Smog merchants
  • Greenhouse economics
  • Free trade, less trade, or no trade?
  • The $750,000 steelworker
  • The lion, the dragon, and the future.