Transportation Economics is aimed at
advanced undergraduate and graduate civil engineering, planning, business,
and economics students, though the material may provide a useful review for
practitioners. Topics covered includes: Demand Curve, Demand and Budgets in
Transportation, The Shape of Demand, Supply and Demand Equilibrium,
Equilibrium in a Negative Feedback System, Disequilibrium, Agents,
Ownership, Regulation, Productivity, Revenue, Pricing, Supply chains,
Production and cost, Negative externalities, Positive externalities.
This note
covers the following topics: Solow growth model, Ramsey growth model,
Diamond overlapping-generations model Endogenous growth and human capital
models, Empirical growth analyses, Business cycles and RBC models,
Traditional business-cycle models, New Keynesian IS-LM, Phillips curve,
Lucas imperfect-information model, Imperfect competition and sticky prices,
Dynamic pricing models, Unemployment models and Investment theory.
This note describes the following topics: Economic Motives, Wealth
And Welfare, The Nature Of Demand, Exchange In A Market, Psychic Income, The
Law Of Diminishing Returns, The Theory Of Rent, Repair, Depreciation, And
Destruction Of Wealth, Capitalization And Time-value, The Money Economy And
The Concept Of Capital, Interest On Money Loans, The Value Of Human
Services.