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020 | _a9781583671436 (PB) | ||
041 | _aeng | ||
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_a330 _bYAT |
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100 | _aYates, Michael D | ||
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_aCheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue _bAn economist's travelogue |
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_aNew York _bMonthly Review Press _c2006 |
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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 | ||
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