TY - GEN AU - Yates, Michael D TI - Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue: An economist's travelogue SN - 9781583671436 (PB) PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Monthly Review Press KW - Economic history KW - Economists Travel KW - Economists Travel United States Anecdotes N1 - Acknowledgments Prologue The Road Beckons Yellowstone National Park Manhattan Portland and the Pacific Northwest Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate I Miami Beach Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate II N2 - Retiring from 32 years as a professor of economics, the author and his wife sell most of their possessions and travel the United States. This is an account of their adventures and an examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States ER -