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Roads in a market economy

Gabriel Roth ; with a forword by James M. Buchanan ; and an epilogue by Milton Friedman and Daniel J. Boorstin

Avebury Technical, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

This work, based on the propositon that roads exhibit typical command economy characteristics (congestion, chronic lack of funds), then shows roads in a market economy framework, employing concepts of ownership, market pricing and profitability to achieve a commercial basis of provision.

Table of Contents

  • Commercial management of roads
  • commercial pricing of roads
  • charging for road use
  • commercial investment in roads
  • objections to the commercial provision of roads
  • private provision of public roads
  • roads to the market. Epilogue - "How to plan and pay for the safe and adequate highways we need.", Milton Freidman and Daniel J. Boorstin.

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