Highway Heist - Bennett, James T
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"The Congressional Budget Office has laid out seven infrastructure categories: highways, public transit, wastewater treatment, water resources, air traffic control, airports, and municipal water supply. This book focuses on a broadened version of the first and, in many ways, most visible and historically significant category: roads and bridges, as well as their aquatic kin, the nineteenth-century canal. Also examined is US transportation policy from the Constitutional Convention through the presidency of Donald Trump-that is, from "internal improvements" in antebellum America to the current trope of "crumbling infrastructure.""--…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"The Congressional Budget Office has laid out seven infrastructure categories: highways, public transit, wastewater treatment, water resources, air traffic control, airports, and municipal water supply. This book focuses on a broadened version of the first and, in many ways, most visible and historically significant category: roads and bridges, as well as their aquatic kin, the nineteenth-century canal. Also examined is US transportation policy from the Constitutional Convention through the presidency of Donald Trump-that is, from "internal improvements" in antebellum America to the current trope of "crumbling infrastructure.""--
Autorenporträt
James T. Bennett (1942–2024) was a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Eminent Scholar, the William P. Snavely Chair of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Economics, and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Case Western Reserve University, and was a McKinsey Scholar at Columbia University, Ford Motor Company Scholar and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Fellow; and specialized in research related to public policy issues, the economics of government and bureaucracy, labor unions, and health charities.