The traveling economist : using economics to think about what makes us all so different and the same /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knoop, Todd A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Economics.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Economic policy.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Economics
Économie politique.
Politique économique.
Innovations > Aspect économique.
Mondialisation.
economics.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Economic policy
Economics > Sociological aspects
Globalization > Economic aspects
Technological innovations > Economic aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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