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Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regu…
When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations v…
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- 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages).
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Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Finan…
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In this book, leading economist William Barnett argues instead that there was too little use of the relevant economics, especi…
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- 9780262301343
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 322 pages) :illustrations
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Climate of Capitulation: An Insider's Account of State Power in a Coal Nation
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340663
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- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) :illustrations, map
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New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the…
A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337410
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages).
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Recent developments in antitrust :theory and evidence
Specialists discuss current conceptual and empirical issues involved in the formulation and enforcement of antitrust policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270229
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) :illustrations.
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Money payments and liquidity
A new edition of a book presenting a unified framework for studying the role of money and liquid assets in the economy, revised and updated. In Money, Payments, and Liquidity, Guillaume Rocheteau and Ed Nosal provide a comprehensive investigation into the economics of money, liquidity, and payments by explicitly modeling the mechanics of trade and its various frictions (including search, priv…
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- 9780262338479
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- 1 online resource (504 pages)
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Clearer skies over China: reconciling air quality, climate, and economic goals
China's carbon dioxide emissions now outstrip those of other countries and its domestic air quality is severely degraded, especially in urban areas. Its sheer size and its growing, fossil-fuel-powered economy mean that China's economic and environmental policy choices will have an outsized effect on the global environmental future. This book offers an integrated analysis of China's economy, emi…
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The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341318
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- 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages).
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Who’s to Blame for Greece? Austerity in Charge of Saving a Broken Economy
Greece's economy symbolizes in many ways the Eurozone's economic problems and divergent interests as it amasses most of the economic disadvantages characterizing the Eurozone's economy itself. This book presents the economic and political challenges to Greece and the EU member states.
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- 978-1-137-54920-4
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Who Runs the Economy? The Role of Power in Economics
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of what went wrong, very little has substantially changed. Perhaps the answer has something to do wit…
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