Transport Infrastructure

Kenneth Button

ISBN 10: 1840645547 / ISBN 13: 9781840645545

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, GB, 2002

About this Item

Understanding the economics and the wider impact of transport infrastructure presents a major challenge to economists. The scale of investment, indivisibilities, the setting of appropriate charges and the rate of economic growth are problems which require analyses and create controversy. Further contentious issues are the need to rely on public sector finance and certain ambiguities concerning impact on productivity.The editors have brought together in Transport Infrastructure a set of classic readings in the literature which show the development of analysis in this field.As the names in this volume show, some of the best economic thinkers of the twentieth century have addressed these multi-faceted problems.This authoritative new collection of previously published papers presents a selection of the developments in a field which is still attracting new ideas and challenging transport planners and governments in both the developed and developing world, and indicate something of the diversity of analysis needed and the problems which remain.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transport Infrastructure
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840645547
• ISBN 13: 9781840645545
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Understanding the economics and the wider impact of transport infrastructure presents a major challenge to economists. The scale of investment, indivisibilities, the setting of appropriate charges and the rate of economic growth are problems which require analyses and create controversy. Further contentious issues are the need to rely on public sector finance and certain ambiguities concerning impact on productivity.

The editors have brought together in Transport Infrastructure a set of classic readings in the literature which show the development of analysis in this field.

As the names in this volume show, some of the best economic thinkers of the twentieth century have addressed these multi-faceted problems.

This authoritative new collection of previously published papers presents a selection of the developments in a field which is still attracting new ideas and challenging transport planners and governments in both the developed and developing world, and indicate something of the diversity of analysis needed and the problems which remain.

About the Author

Edited by the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US, Roger Vickerman, Professor of European Economics, University of Kent, UK, Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US and Peter Nijkamp, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China