Readings in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy gathers popular press articles, reviews of applied economics literature, and regression-based empirical studies to examine pressing public policy issues in urban areas.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Readings in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy gathers popular press articles, reviews of applied economics literature, and regression-based empirical studies to examine pressing public policy issues in urban areas. The readings extend beyond textbook economic theory and allow for a more in-depth and real-world analysis of a multitude of twenty-first-century urban concerns:
- Urban growth and urban sprawl.
- Housing.
- Economic development incentives.
- Crime.
- Race, employment, and poverty.
- Transportation.
- Public primary and secondary education.
- Local government.
About the Author
Robert W. Wassmer is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Sacramento. As Director of the system-wide California State University Faculty Fellows Applied Research Program, he heads a group of public policy consultants to the state of California. His research in urban economic development and state/local public finance has appeared in numerous prestigious journals such as the Journal of Urban Economics and Urban Studies. He has taught at Wayne State University's Department of Economics and College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, and holds a PhD from Michigan State University.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
Could it be that America's formerly great cities are rising anew, phoenix-like, from the ashes of urban squalor? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
city income growth, downstate small cities, commercial property tax abatements, desired additive effect, housing assistance recipients, local contribution rate, local development incentives, metropolitan fiscal disparities, covariance proxy, required minimum tax rate, same state budget, total incentive effect, heteroskedastic correction, central city incorporated, conventional simultaneity, local economic development incentives, highway capital stock, full interaction model, real manufacturing value, tax increment financing authority, highway stock, school finance formulas, monocentric model, positive additive effect, employment suburbanization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, San Francisco, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, New Jersey, Highland Park, New England, National Tax, Discussion Questions, State Street, Elsevier Science, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Academic Press, Royal Oak, John Yinger, Journal of Regional Science, New Orleans, Quarterly Journal of Economics, River Rouge, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, Bureau of the Census, American Economic Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Could it be that America's formerly great cities are rising anew, phoenix-like, from the ashes of urban squalor? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
city income growth, downstate small cities, commercial property tax abatements, desired additive effect, housing assistance recipients, local contribution rate, local development incentives, metropolitan fiscal disparities, covariance proxy, required minimum tax rate, same state budget, total incentive effect, heteroskedastic correction, central city incorporated, conventional simultaneity, local economic development incentives, highway capital stock, full interaction model, real manufacturing value, tax increment financing authority, highway stock, school finance formulas, monocentric model, positive additive effect, employment suburbanization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, San Francisco, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, New Jersey, Highland Park, New England, National Tax, Discussion Questions, State Street, Elsevier Science, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Academic Press, Royal Oak, John Yinger, Journal of Regional Science, New Orleans, Quarterly Journal of Economics, River Rouge, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, Bureau of the Census, American Economic Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 94
books:
See all 94 books this book cites
7
books
cite this book:
See all 7 books citing this book
- Stuck inTraffic by Anthony Downs on 4 pages
- America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy by Helen F. Ladd on page 250, page 323, and page 457
- Statistical Abstract of the United States: The National Data Book by U. S. Census Bureau in Front Matter, page 106, and page 251
- Does Money Matter?: The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success by Gary Burtless in Front Matter, page 323, and page 324
- The Economics of Zoning Laws: A Property Rights Approach to American Land Use Controls by William A. Fischel in Front Matter, and page 124
See all 94 books this book cites
- Readings in the Theory of Economic Development (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics) by Dilip Mookherjee in Front Matter
- Readings in Games and Information (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics) by Eric Rasmusen in Front Matter
- Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics) by Robert E. Kuenne in Front Matter
- Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics) by Robert E. Kuenne in Front Matter
- Readings in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Market Forces and Solutions (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics) by Robert E. Kuenne in Front Matter
See all 7 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
