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O'Sullivan Arthur

Urban economics - Boston Irwin McGraw-Hill 1996 - 739p

0-256-16072-4


Local government
Public growth
Urban development
Urban economics
Market forces in the development of cities : cities development, History of western urbanization, Urban economic growth Internal scale economic production , Agglomerative economic production, Localization, Commercial firms and trading cities, Migration, labour cost,Transport costs vs Local in put costs , Industrial revolution, Monopolist pricing , Central place theory , Urban labour market and economic growth , Public policy and economic growth, Costs of employment growth, Plant-Closure legislation
land rent and urban land use patterns
Introduction to land rent and land use , land rent and fertility , Linear and convex land rent function, market interactions , land use in the monocentric city, Commercial and industrial land use, Bid-rent function of manufactures , Residential land use, Communiting costs , Empirical estimates of rent and density functions , general equilibrium land use, Export sales, streetcar system, Property tax, Suburbanization and modern cities , Intracity and intercity truck, single story plants, suburban airports, Suburbanization and urbanization , land use controls and zoning, Nuisance zoning, Fiscal zoning, Design zoning, legal environment of land use control
Federal response to urban problems
Cause of poverty, Poverty and public policy , AFDC, Negative income tax, In-Kind transfers, Welfare reforms, Child support and earned income credit , Dispersal policies, Housing , Heterogeneity and immobility, Durability of housing, Racial discrimination and segregation , Housing polices , Public housing, consumer subsidies, rent control
Urban problem and local government
Federalism, Metropolitan consolidation , Growth in local spending, Fiscal health of central cities, Voting with ballots and feet, Median voter rule, Tiebout model, Local taxes and intergovernmental grants , Residential property tax, tax on commercial and industrial property, Intergovernmental grants, Capitalization and distributional effects, Tax expenditures , Deductibility of local taxes , Autos and highways , Equilibrium vs optimum traffic volume, Congestion tax, Highway pricing and traffic volume in the long run, congestion and land use patterns, Air pollution, Auto safety
mass transit, BART, Travel mode, subsidies for mass transit, deregulation : private provision of transit, transporting and land use patterns, Education , Inequalities, Desegregation policy, Guaranteed tax-based plan, Michigan equalization plan, California equalization program, Crime and punishment, Crime prevention, Illegal commodities and victimless crime
Tools of microeconomics
Model of supply and demand, Theory of consumer choice, Theory of workers choice, Marginal decision making

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