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Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis
American monetary policy is formulated by the Federal Reserve and overseen by Congress. Both policy making and oversight are deliberative processes, although the effect of this deliberation has been difficult to quantify. In this book, Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey provides a systematic examination of deliberation on monetary policy from 1976 to 2008 by the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (F…
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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…
How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together t…
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- 9780262271608
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages).
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Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States
Experts discuss fiscal reforms intended to address the U.S. debt problem, examining entitlements, federal budgetary processes, and individual and corporate income taxes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321914
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 411 pages) :illustrations
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The economic dynamics of environmental law
This text shows in detail how the concept of economic dynamics can reshape thinking about environmental law and policy. It argues that environmental policymaking in the US has been poorly served by the view of the relationship between environmental regulation and economy, technology and business.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272001
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- 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
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Good green jobs in a global economy :making and keeping new industries in the…
After describing federal green energy initiatives in the first two years of the Obama administration, Hess turns his attention to the state and local levels, examining demand-side and supply-side support for green industry and local small business. He analyzes the successes and failures of green coalitions and the partisan patterns of support for green energy reform. This new piecemeal green in…
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- 9780262305907
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- 1 online resource (x, 298 pages).
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Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329972
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- 1 online resource (468 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change
How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change -- and what threatens their leadership.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330152
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages).
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Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
"Foreword by Oran R. Young"--Cover.An argument that secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- are political actors in their own right.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325356
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- 1 online resource (xx, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Conference proceedings.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and …
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- 9780262301831
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- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States
"Energy utilization, especially from fossil fuels, creates hidden costs in the form of pollution and environmental damages. The costs are well documented but are hidden in the sense that they occur outside the market, are not reflected in market prices, and are not taken into account by energy users. Double Dividend presents a novel method for designing environmental taxes that correct market p…
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- 9780262318563
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