This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of
cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as
of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics,
including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and
education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as
segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention,
housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic
development.
Its methods of analysis are primarily verbal, geometric, and
arithmetic. The author achieves coherence by showing how the
analysis of various topics reinforces one another. Thus, buses can
tell us something about schools and optimal tolls about land
prices. Brendan O'Flaherty looks at almost everything through the
lens of Pareto optimality and potential Pareto optimality--how
policies affect people and their well-being, not abstract entities
such as cities or the economy or growth or the environment. Such
traditionalism leads to radical questions, however: Should cities
have police and fire departments? Should tax preferences for home
ownership be repealed? Should public schools charge for their
services? O'Flaherty also gives serious consideration to such
heterodox policies as pay-at-the-pump auto insurance, curb rights
for buses, land taxes, marginal cost water pricing, and sidewalk
zoning.
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