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Asset price bubbles :implications for monetary, regulatory, and international…
Revised papers of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the World Bank.In both the industrialized and developing worlds, a distinctive feature of the last two decades has been prolonged buildups and sharp collapses in asset markets such as stock, housing, and exchange markets. The volatility has sparked intense debate in academic and policy circles over the appropria…
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- 9780262275910
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 581 pages) :illustrations
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Banking on the environment :multilateral development banks and their environm…
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the E…
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- 9780262274531
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Indra's net and the Midas touch :living sustainably in a connected world
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298858
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- 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) :illustrations
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The Internet upheaval : raising questions, seeking answers in communications …
"At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures.These research studies explore some of the tele…
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- 0262285606
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 426 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 INT
Health care turning point: Why single payer won't work
In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions about the advantages of single-paye…
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- 9780262265966
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- 1 online resource (xx, 165 pages)
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Human footprints on the global environment: Threats to sustainability
"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of resea…
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- 9780262259163
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- 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) :illustrations
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Networks and state : The global politics of Internet governance
"When the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering/censorship by states and concerns over national cybersecurity, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated to the tradition…
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- 0262289660
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations.
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The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity
"The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, J?org Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming …
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Obfuscation : a user's guide for privacy and protest
With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the del…
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- 9780262331319
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- 1 online resource (x, 123 pages)
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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 194 pages).
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