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020 _a9781583671436 (PB)
041 _aeng
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_bYAT
100 _aYates, Michael D
245 _aCheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue
_bAn economist's travelogue
260 _aNew York
_bMonthly Review Press
_c2006
300 _a272 p.
505 _aAcknowledgments 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
520 _aRetiring 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
650 _aEconomic history
650 _a Economists Travel
650 _aEconomists Travel United States Anecdotes
690 _aGeneral
942 _cBK
999 _c52382
_d52382