Industrial trade unions in Europe and North America often struggle to develop a coherent strategy on climate change and overcoming fossil fuel production patterns. Trade union policy in the German steel industry is an interesting example of this: the "green" restructuring is firmly in favour, as...

One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural...

The Socialist Car -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption -- 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practives along the "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism" (1945-1968) -- 2. Cars...