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This book questions the ethics of government officials'' and automobile industry representatives'' strategies to promote automobiles over other forms of transportation in China and India. It begins by reviewing the early history of the symbiotic relationship of automobile representatives and government officials in America that led to automobile proliferation and the well-entrenched car culture that we have today. The book then shows how these same dynamics and strategies are at work in China and India and how in each country, transportation policies have favoured private and individual forms of transportation over public ones.

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    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
    Publication Date: 01/09/2011
    ISBN13: 9781617612718, 978-1617612718
    ISBN10: 1617612715
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    Book Synopsis
    This book questions the ethics of government officials'' and automobile industry representatives'' strategies to promote automobiles over other forms of transportation in China and India. It begins by reviewing the early history of the symbiotic relationship of automobile representatives and government officials in America that led to automobile proliferation and the well-entrenched car culture that we have today. The book then shows how these same dynamics and strategies are at work in China and India and how in each country, transportation policies have favoured private and individual forms of transportation over public ones.

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