The Traveling Economist: Using Economics to Think about What Makes Us All So Different and the Same
Autor Todd A. Knoopen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mar 2017 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781440852367
ISBN-10: 1440852367
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 23 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1440852367
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 23 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Addresses the reasons for why technology does, and does not, spread to different areas of the world; why haggling is so important in poorer countries, and what this tells us about the benefits and cost of trade; and why tourism is a public good and the benefits and challenges this reality creates for societies
Notă biografică
Todd A. Knoop, PhD, is the David Joyce Professor of Economics and Business at Cornell College.
Cuprins
PrefaceChapter 1 Why Do the Haves Have and the Have-nots Have Less?Chapter 2 Why Are Drivers in Other Countries So Much Worse Than Back Home?Chapter 3 Why Are There More Workers Than Patrons at This Coffee House? The Tradeoff between Capital and LaborChapter 4 $50 Billion to Ride the Bus!?! How Governments Can Kill Growth or Help It to ThriveChapter 5 Nothing Needs Reform as Much as Other People: Culture and EconomicsChapter 6 What's a Landline? Technological Diffusion around the WorldChapter 7 Best Price for You! The Economics of HagglingChapter 8 I Think That I Shall Never See Any Economics as Lovely as a Tree: Nature and EconomicsChapter 9 Who Owns the Space Behind My Seat? Traveling EconomicsChapter 10 Coming HomeNotesBibliographyIndex