Economics At the Wheel: the Costs of Cars and Drivers | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard C. Porter
Publisher: Academic Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 766896
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 258
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0125623615
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.3
EAN: 9780125623612
ASIN: 0125623615
Publication Date: June 15, 1999
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Economics at the Wheel is about cars and driving, and all the problems that cars and drivers create for America. It explains actual government policy intended to reduce the damage cars and drivers do to us, and it explains why these government policies are almost all failures because they attack the wrong problem or attack it in the wrong way. The reader will come away with a much fuller understanding of air pollution, global warming, highway safety, auto insurance, gasoline taxation, rush-hour congestion, leaking underground storage tanks, and many other auto-related issues.
Key Features
* Presents continuous application to real policy issues of introductory microeconomic theory
* Looks at common actions and circumstances from an economics perspective
* Readable with accessible prose style and few footnotes
* Includes questions to provoke student thinking and boxed sections of side materials to stimulate discussions
* Maintains a breezy style; begun as class note, the author has tried to keep the book as near the give-and-take of a small class as possible
* Makes the immense technical economic literature on automobiles accessible to undergraduates with a minimum of formal theory, math, and graph abilities
|
| Customer Reviews:
Doesn't skimp on the math March 6, 2004
This is a great book. It's quick, concise, well-organized, easy to understand, not dumbed down, practical ... I could go on. Plus, Prof Porter actually emailed back when I wrote him with comments and questions. The book includes questions throughout for further thought, the answers to which are in the back and resemble class notes. I wish I could find a book as good as this on more topics.
|
|
|
