Highway Heist

America's Crumbling Infrastructure and the Road Forward
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-59813-344-8
Verlag: Independent Institute

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Who will build the roads?" We have all heard this tired cliché to rationalize the government's ever-increasing spending of taxpayer money to maintain vital infrastructure. And all we have to show for it is dilapidated roads strewn with potholes. and the excuse to swindle more money from taxpayers. Enter James T. Bennett's Highway Heist: America's Crumbling Infrastructure and the Road Forward. Finally, a robust analysis of the government's mishandling of infrastructure projects stretches back decades. And finally, real solutions that the government doesn't want you to know about.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, James T

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Verkehrsplanung, Verkehrspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Internal—or Infernal?—Improvements: A New Nation Confronts Infrastructure
- 2. Good Roads—or Here come the Wheelmen!
- 3. Ike's Autobahn: The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
- 4. We're Not Going to Take It Anymore: Americans Revolt against the Freeway
- 5. Crumbling Infrastructure of Focus-Group Buzzwords?

Über Autor(innen)

James T. Bennett is an Eminent Scholar at George Mason University. He holds the William P. Snavely Chair of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Economics and is Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy. Bennett received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1970 and has specialized in research related to public policy issues, the economics of government and bureaucracy, labor unions, and health charities.