Economics of specific sectors

Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and psychology, Galster delivers a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they come to be-and what they should be.

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy.

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today.

Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology.

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces.

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy-labor, capital, and political structure-the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W.

Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s.

Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water.

Economists disagree on whether recent U.

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support.

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors.

The United States is now admitting nearly one million legal immigrants per year, while the flow of illegal aliens into the country continues to increase steadily.

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

Economic literature is often too theoretical for engineers and policymakers to put into practical use, while scientific literature on the remediation of contaminated aquifers rarely considers costs and benefits.

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics.

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known.

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty.

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "e;battle of the bulge"e; of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies.

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

India's remarkable economic growth in recent years has made it one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant.

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse.

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career in the economics of technical and institutional change.

There is an urgent need to better understand the causes and consequences of obesity, and to learn what works to prevent or reduce obesity.

The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "e;battle of the bulge"e; of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action.

The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneve in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming.

Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind.