The+City+as+a+Distorted+Price+System

//Architectural Record// 1968
 * "The City As A Distorted Price System"**

Wilbur Thompson was "a pioneer in the field of urban economics" (Drennan and Netzer) and a Professor at Wayne State University. During the Vietnam era in the late-sixties, Thompson wrote about pricing, urban economics, and city policies in //Psychology Today//.
 * Thompson, Wilbur (1923 - )**

Thompson promotes the ideological idea of thinking about everything in an urban environment as having a "price." Thompson produces solutions to economic problems in urban areas by focusing on collectively consumed public goods, merit goods designed to encourage desired behaviors, and payments to redistribute income.
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 * Thompson exemplifies solutions in the area of government public goods such as public safety, police, highways, and air pollution control.
 * He expounds upon government commodoties such as education, sewerage, water works, and more and reasonable ways to control them.
 * He also gives ideas on redistributing income to those of a less fortunate status.
 * He gives an economic point of view of government systems in urban environments and has readers focus on a monetary way of viewing the problems associated with them.

Drennan, Matthew P. and Dick Netzer, "Readings in State and Local Public Finance" 1997. //GoogleBooks//. 22 October 2009.
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Interesting read
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