The Traveling Economist
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The Traveling Economist

Using Economics to Think about What Makes Us All So Different and the Same

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Traveling Economist

Using Economics to Think about What Makes Us All So Different and the Same

About this book

This fascinating book introduces travelersā€”of the body or the mindā€”to a few simple economic concepts that will help them to think differently and more deeply about the differences between the people and the places they visit during their journeys. The principles and mechanics of economics are firmly rooted in everything around us, in our home country as well as in every nation and culture around the world. Having a basic grasp of economics can help all travelers to think more carefully about why things work differently in different places. Armed with this knowledge, readers will be equipped to better appreciateā€”and learn fromā€”the beauty and complexity of the world around us. The Traveling Economist: Using Economics to Think about What Makes Us All So Different and the Same illustrates important economic concepts that every traveler and world citizen should understand. Employing clear, jargon-free explanations and illustrated with real-life examples, Knoop uniquely focuses on the interplay between travel and economics. He uses our shared travel experiences to illustrate exactly how economic thinking supplies such a powerful framework for understanding the world around us. More than simply explaining economics through travel experiences, this book enables adventurers who desperately want to avoid being touristsā€”i.e., people who travel to see what they know is thereā€”to become explorers: those who learn each and every day from what they witness.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781440852367
eBook ISBN
9798216157366
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Why Do the Haves Have and the Have-nots Have Less?
  8. Chapter 2: Why Are Drivers in Other Countries So Much Worse Than Back Home?
  9. Chapter 3: Why Are There More Workers Than Patrons at This Coffee House? The Tradeoff between Capital and Labor
  10. Chapter 4: $50 Billion to Ride the Bus!?! How Governments Can Kill Growth or Help It to Thrive
  11. Chapter 5: Nothing Needs Reform as Much as Other People: Culture and Economics
  12. Chapter 6: Whatā€™s a Landline? Technological Diffusion around the World
  13. Chapter 7: Best Price for You! The Economics of Haggling
  14. Chapter 8: I Think That I Shall Never See Any Economics as Lovely as a Tree: Nature and Economics
  15. Chapter 9: Who Owns the Space Behind My Seat? Traveling Economics
  16. Chapter 10: Coming Home
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index