Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue An economist's travelogue
Language: English Publication details: New York Monthly Review Press 2006Description: 272 pISBN: 9781583671436 (PB)Subject(s): Economic history | Economists Travel | Economists Travel United States Anecdotes | GeneralCurrent library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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IMSc Library | IMSc Library | 330 YAT (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 76541 |
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
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
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