Unspeakable Truths: Is Transforming Transportation a Key to Solving America's Economic Crisis?

The financial meltdown of 2008 has saddled us with an economic crisis that's changed our world in some drastic and significant ways since Professor Giglio's three previous books on transportation were published beginning in 2005. In this new book, Professor Giglio argues that our thinking about transforming transportation in America must evolve to reflect these changes. To help us understand why, his book begins by reviewing how the current economic crisis came about and what impact it's likely to have on critical aspects of life in America, especially transportation. He provides clear, detailed explanations of the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008, the whys and wherefores of subjects like Oil Price Volatility, the Crazy World of Financial Derivatives, and the Housing and Mortgage Mess, plus the down-and-dirty realities of Markets in the 21st Century. Finally, he explores some of the things we'll have to do to Make It Big in the much-changed world of the 21st Century, like transforming our transportation systems into Serious Economic Growth Generators. And he does all this in a clear, reader-friendly style that avoids the eye-glazing abstractions of standard academic prose so typical of most books on these subjects. This makes the book an enjoyable, page-turning read for busy people.