5 or So Books on Transportation Economics and Policy You Should Read
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
You are sitting by the fire, in your leather chair that just reeks "old money", a reading light behind you, in your smoking robe and slippers, Labrador Retriever by your feet, pipe in one hand, a good book in another. What is that good book? Something about transportation economics and policy of course. Here are some of my favorites ...
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson (no relation, though I met him once) [review]
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition - Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius, and Rothergatter [review]
Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment - Altshuler and Luberoff
Going Private - Jose Gomez-Ibanez and John Meyer
Curb Rights - Daniel Klein, Adrian moore, and Binyam Reja