Explores changes in city density by comparing Melbourne, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Auckland and other new frontier cities. Includes a new interpretation of the effect of development on problems faced by frontier cities, and a detailed bibliography. The author lectures on economics and economic history at La Trobe University.
As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.
The new 4th edition of Microeconomics is designed for students who have not previously studied economics. It provides a clear explanation of basic microeconomic principles through analogies, real-world examples and user-friendly graphs and illustrations.Thoroughly updated, while retaining the economy of exposition and clarity of purpose that this text is renowned for, it makes extensive use of data and examples to illustrate principles and concepts under discussion.OVERVIEW OF CHANGES The major structural change was to move chapter 16 (Public goods, Common Resources and Externalities) forward in the text so that it is now the new chapter 13. Chapters 12 (Competition Policy and Regulation) and the new chapter 13 together become a new Part Four under the new Part heading Promoting Efficiency and Dealing with Market Failure. The contents of these chapters are closely related. The new Part gives more emphasis to the important and popular topic of market failure. Some minor rewriting was necessary to accommodate these changes however the content and structure of the chapters did not change significantly. A number of new high quality interest boxes (Explanatory Power, Economics at Work, Counterpoint, Historical Perspective) have been added. These boxes employ concepts developed in the chapter and use at least two newly defined terms (italicised in text) from the chapter. These boxes illustrate the relevance and usefulness of ideas introduced in the text. Facts and numbers throughout the text have been rechecked and updated where appropriate and 50% of the end-of-chapter questions for review and problems have been updated or rewritten.DETAILS OF CHANGES & GENERAL APPROACHPART 1: INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICSThis part introduces key concepts (e.g. opportunity cost and comparative advantage) and develops the simple supply and demand model. Elasticity is also covered in depth. No major structural changes were introduced other than moving content from the web into the text covering the basic interpretation of diagrams. This is now an appendix to Chapter One.PART 2: THE PERFECT COMPETITION MODELThe title of this part was changed from Principles of Microeconomics to The Perfect Competition Model.Part 2 examines supply and demand in depth. Chapters 5 and 6 build on the basic economic principles of scarcity and purposeful choice to derive the demand and supply curves. Chapter 7 then combines these to create the perfect competition model, which is able to demonstrate the efficiencies inherent in perfectly competitive markets.Chapter 5; The Demand Curve and the Behaviour of Firms clarifies the definition of utility. The numerical indicator simply ranks utilities according to preference, because utility cannot be measured.New content was added in an intuitive way to show the utility maximising rule (that is, when markets are working efficiently the marginal utility from spending an additional dollar on one good equals the marginal utility from spending an additional dollar on the other good).Chapter 6; The Supply Curve and the Behaviour Firms was updated with examples to better illustrate how marginal costs for firms and the profit maximising level of output are related.PART 3: FIRM AND INDUSTRY BEHAVIOURThis part was previously called Firms and Industries.It begins with the model of a perfectly competitive industry over the long run, explaining the entry and exit of firms in terms of economic incentives. The individual generic cost curves of various types
A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged to adopt simpler systems of meaning, or were taught to exchange the ideals of reason and individuality for those of enthusiasm and the false romance of group identity. Trilling's remarkable essays show a critic who was philosophically motivated and textually responsible, alive to history but not in thrall to it, exercised by art but not worshipful of it, consecrated to ideas but suspicious of theory.
Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.C.) to the heyday of the Byzantine fleets. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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