The Economics of Public Issues

By Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass Cecil North

The Economics of Public Issues
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Use Part 1 The Foundations of Economic Analysis 1 Death by Bureaucrat 2 Ethanol Madness 3 Flying the Friendly Skies? 4 The Mystery of Wealth Part 2 Supply and Demand 5 Sex, Booze, and Drugs 6 Kidneys for Sale 7 When High Prices Are Low Prices 8 Are We Running Out of Water? 9 The (Dis)incentives of High Taxes 10 Bankrupt Landlords, from Sea to Shining Sea Part 3 Labor Markets 11 (Why) Are Women Paid Less? 12 The Effects of the Minimum Wage 13 Immigration, Superstars, and Poverty 14 A Farewell to Jobs Part 4 Market Structures 15 Big Oil, Big Oil Prices? 16 Contracts, Combinations, and Conspiracies 17 Coffee, Tea, or Tuition-Free? 18 College Costs (.and Costs and Costs) 19 Keeping the Competition Out Part 5 Political Economy 20 Mortgage Meltdown 21 The Political Economy of Collapsing Bridges 22 Is Your Bank Manager Headed to Vegas with Your Money? 23 Raising Less Corn and More Hell 24 Crime and Punishment 25 The Graying of America Part 6 Property Rights and the Environment 26 The Trashman Cometh 27 Bye Bye Bison 28 Smog Merchants 29 Greenhouse Economics Part 7 Globalization and Economic Prosperity 30 Globalization and the Wealth of America 31 The $750,000 Steelworker 32 The Lion, the Dragon, and the Future.