The economics of public issues / Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass C. North.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part 1. Foundations of economic analysis: chapter 1. Killer airbags -- chapter 2. Terrible trade-off -- chapter 3. Flying the friendly skies? -- chapter 4. Choosing crime -- part 2. Supply and demand: chapter 5. Sex, booze, and drugs -- chapter 6. Is water different? -- chapter 7. Rationing health care -- chapter 8. Choice and life -- chapter 9. Bankrupt landlords, from sea to shining sea -- chapter 10. Getting scalped -- part 3. Market structures: chapter 11. Pure competition on Wall Street -- chapter 12. Contracts, combinations, and conspiracies -- chapter 13. Merger mania -- chapter 14. Keeping the competition out -- chapter 15. Coffee, tea, or tuition-free? -- part 4. Labor and human capital: chapter 16. Economic returns to education -- chapter 17. Tired, poor, huddled masses -- chapter 18. Disposable workers -- chapter 19. Million dollar men -- chapter 20. Effects of the minimum wage -- part 5. Political economy: chapter 21. Foreign or domestic? Ask a bureaucrat -- chapter 22. Education and choice -- chapter 23. Crime and punishment -- chapter 24. Graying of America -- chapter 25. Inner city high finance -- part 6. Externalities and the environment: chapter 26. Trashman cometh -- chapter 27. Bye, bye, bison -- chapter 28. Smog merchants -- chapter 29. Greenhouse economics -- part 7. International scene: chapter 30. Benefits of free trade -- chapter 31. Opposition to free trade -- chapter 32. $750,000 job.