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The traveling economist : using economics to think about what makes us all so different and the same / Todd A. Knoop, PhD.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440852374
  • 1440852375
  • 9798216157366
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Traveling economist.DDC classification:
  • 330 23
LOC classification:
  • HB171 .K626 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This book introduces travelers--of the body or the mind--to a few simple economic concepts that will help them to think differently and more deeply about the differences between the people and the places they visit during their journeys.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.

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.

This book introduces travelers--of the body or the mind--to a few simple economic concepts that will help them to think differently and more deeply about the differences between the people and the places they visit during their journeys.

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