City Economics
Brendan O´flaherty
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Description for City Economics
Hardcover. Aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as undergraduate economics. Deals with standard topics including automobiles, pollution, housing and education. But also discusses topics such as segragation, garbage, homelessness and economic development. Num Pages: 608 pages, 53 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1220.
This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
Its methods of analysis are primarily verbal, geometric, and arithmetic. The author achieves coherence by showing how the analysis of various topics reinforces one another. Thus, buses can tell us something about schools and optimal tolls ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674019188
SKU
V9780674019188
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
About Brendan O´flaherty
Brendan O’Flaherty is Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His books include The Economics of Race in the United States and City Economics.
Reviews for City Economics
This brilliant book, half textbook, half treatise, provides a magisterial overview of city economics that tempers an optimistic vision of the city's potential for advancing the human condition with a recognition of the constraints imposed by scarcity. In contrast to other urban economics textbooks, this book eschews unnecessary technique, draws widely from the other social sciences, and devotes considerable attention ... Read more