| ISBN: | 9781440852367 (hard copy) : |
| 编目源: | DLC DLC DLC |
| 个人名称: | Knoop, Todd A., |
| 题名: | The traveling economist : using economics to think about what makes us all so different and the same / Todd A. Knoop, PhD. |
| 版本说明: | First Edition. |
| 出版发行项: | Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] |
| 载体形态: | xiv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注: | Preface -- Why do the haves have and the -- Have-nots have less? -- Why are drivers in other countries so much worse than back home? -- Why are there more workers than patrons at this coffee house? : the tradeoff between capital and labor -- $50 billion to ride the bus!?! -- How governments can kill growth or help it to thrive -- Nothing needs reform as much as other people : culture and economics -- What's a landline? -- Technological diffusion around the world -- Best price for you! : the economics of haggling -- I think that I shall never see any economics as lovely as a tree: -- Nature and economics -- Who owns the space behind my seat? : traveling economics -- Coming home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |