Economics of social issues
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Economics of social issues
Irwin/McGraw-Hill, c2000
14th ed
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Designed for use in economic problems and policy courses, this volume provides tools useful in the analysis of social problems. It looks at deregulation, health economics, discrimination, poverty and unemployment.
Table of Contents
- Human misery - the most important issues of them all
- economic systems, resource allocation and social well-being - sons from the fall of the Soviet Union
- economics of higher education - who benefits and who pays the bills?
- economics of crime and its prevention - how much is too much?
- pollution problems - must we foul our own nests?
- health issues - is it worth what it costs?
- poverty problems - is poverty necessary?
- discrimination - the high costs of prejudice
- the economics of big business - who does what to whom?
- the economics of professional sports - what is the real score?
- protectionism versus free trade - can WE restrict ourselves into prosperity?
- unemployment issues - why do we waste our labour resources?
- inflation - how to gain and lose at the same time
- government expenditure and tax issues - who wins and who loses?
- the big national debt - is it bad?
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