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Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far by sociologists and pundits. It is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals.

One perplexing fact is that, though homelessness in the past occurred during economic depressions, the current wave started in the...

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...

Brendan O'Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis--incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more--to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities and housing, to levels of wealth and crime, he shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of twenty-first-century Americans. More capacious than standard texts, The Economics of Race in the United States discusses important aspects of history and...

Every review of One Doctor noted its beautiful writing and compelling story, the riveting tension and suspense. "Remarkable with...

Mit diesem Papp-Bilderbuch lernen die Kleinsten die vielfältige Welt der Tiere kennen und entdecken dabei spielerisch Formen und Gestalten. Kugelrunde Eulenköpfe, dreieckige Fuchsohren und fünfzackige Seesterne tummeln sich auf den bunten Seiten und laden zum Entdecken und Erklären ein. Auf den 30 Buchseiten gibt es extraviel zu entdecken und zu erfahren. Die über 40 vorgestellten Tiere zeigen bunte, seltene und oft gefährdete Lebewesen aus aller Welt und machen Lust, die eigene...