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This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. It highlights the best scholarship in planning and economics that address the most pressing urban problems of our day and should stimulate further dialog between scholars in urban planning and urban...

An Anthology of Women TravellersReal ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women&'s travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and...

The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse and What To Do About ItEvidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "e;hidden epidemic"e; that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their...

A Critique of Welfare Economics was first published in 1950. It was concerned with the exposition, criticism, and appreciation of the theory of economic welfare as it had been developed to that date. It was an attempt to clarify what was meant by &'welfare&'; to distinguish measurable, verifiable elements of the theory from subjective normative...

There is growing interest among academics and policymakers in the economics of gambling, which has been stimulated by major regulatory and tax changes in the U.S., U.K. Continental Europe, Asia, Australia and elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive source of path-breaking research on this topic. To fill this gap, we commissioned...

Examining the different structures and techniques involved in making decisions about who benefits from those health care resources available in a publicly funded system, this book provides a concise and compact introduction to health economics and policy....