The Economics of Public Issues — Roger LeRoy Miller et al. (2018)

Book Description

Preface — The foundations of economic analysis — Death by bureaucrat — Innovation — Flying the friendly skies? — The mystery of wealth — The economics of exclusion — Supply and demand — Sex, booze, and drugs — The economics of obesity — Kidneys for sale — Are we running out of water? — Bankrupt landlords, from sea to shining sea — Labor markets — Das kapital in the twenty-first century — (why) are women paid less? — The effects of the minimum wage — The (dis)incentives of high taxes — Market structures — The platform economy — Contracts, combinations, and conspiracies — Coffee, tea, or tuition-free? — Keeping the competition out — Political economy — Health insurance for all … or maybe not — The deception of green energy — The fight over genetically modified foods — Student loans — The graying of america — For whom the roads are tolled — Property rights and the environment — What to do about the climate? — Save that species — Ethanol madness — The death of recycling — Globalization and economic prosperity — The economics of the big mac — Globalization and the wealth of america — The $750,000 steelworker — Glossary — Selected references — Index

Book Details

• Author: Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass Cecil North
• Publisher: Pearson
• Published Date: 2018
• Published Year: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780134531984