. Supporters offer a wide variety of justifications to build and expand rail transit. If one focuses on the judgments of economists … justifications, economists appear to be somewhat optimistic about rail transit’s impact on local economic development, but less … optimistic about rail’s ability to achieve environmental improvement and serve the transit-dependent poor. Economists seem …

Economists in the United States wrote reams of commentary on Argentina’s recession-turned-depression of 1998 … Argentina’s share of world exports was growing. The faulty analysis of U.S. and other economists provided justifications for …

among economists on how to reduce traffic jams. Especially in light of modern electronic toll collection, they believe in … pricing highway capacity as a scarce resource. Beyond that primary insight, however, there is much disagreement. Economists … of pages, while the main point of agreement is largely taken for granted. Practically all economists who write on the …

Do economists reach a conclusion on household and municipal recycling? I explore the policy judgments of published … economists on recycling and find that there is no broad consensus. The mainstream recycling literature is dominated by a guided … approaches: a minimal government laissez faire approach and a command and control regulatory approach. Laissez faire economists …

eminent economists was shaped by a high sense of co‐operation; continuing collaborative contact in the form of dual … economists was fortunate to enter the field at a time when it was ready for its take off.  …

, scope and methodology of economics. More specifically, like the classical economists, she defined economics broadly as the …