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The sustainable economy : the hidden costs of climate change and the path to a prosperous future
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ISBN: 0593311175 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, New York : Anchor Books,

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"Pick an environmental issue. Maybe air pollution, toxic waste, or deforestation. These all seem like solid choices, but none of these is actually an environmental problem--at least, not at its heart. Deep down they're economic problems. Nearly all the issues we classify as environmental stem from defects in the DNA of America's current market system. This is emphatically true of our greatest environmental threat: global warming. With a focus on climate change, journalist and author Robert S. Devine reveals the fundamental flaws in the economy that enable environmental degradation. True Value is a book about economics, but it skips the equations and eases through the jargon, opting instead for compelling stories and surprising humor. Readers will encounter high-tech narwhals, struggling coal workers, orbiting giant mirrors, the kids who are suing the U.S. government over climate policy, and vanishing Alaskan towns"--


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Information exchange among firms and their impact on competition.
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ISBN: 9282697053 9789282697054 Year: 1995 Publisher: Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des communautés européennes = Office for official publications of the European communities = OPOCE,


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L'apprentissage de la mondialisation : les milieux économiques allemands face à la réussite américaine (1876-1914)
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ISBN: 9789052018539 9052018537 Year: 2012 Volume: 24 Publisher: Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang,


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Fully grown : why a stagnant economy is a sign of success
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ISBN: 022666614X 9780226666006 022666600X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press,

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"Vollrath challenges our long-held assumption that growth is the best indicator of an economy’s health. Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from its postwar highs, has raised alarm bells. But should it? Is growth actually the best way to measure economic success—and does our slowdown indicate economic problems? The counterintuitive answer Dietrich Vollrath offers is: No. Looking at the same facts as other economists, he offers a radically different interpretation. Rather than a sign of economic failure, he argues, our current slowdown is, in fact, a sign of our widespread economic success. Our powerful economy has already supplied so much of the necessary stuff of modern life, brought us so much comfort, security, and luxury, that we have turned to new forms of production and consumption that increase our well-being but do not contribute to growth in GDP. In Fully Grown, Vollrath offers a powerful case to support that argument. He explores a number of important trends in the US economy: including a decrease in the number of workers relative to the population, a shift from a goods-driven economy to a services-driven one, and a decline in geographic mobility. In each case, he shows how their economic effects could be read as a sign of success, even though they each act as a brake of GDP growth. He also reveals what growth measurement can and cannot tell us—which factors are rightly correlated with economic success, which tell us nothing about significant changes in the economy, and which fall into a conspicuously gray area. Sure to be controversial, Fully Grown will reset the terms of economic debate and help us think anew about what a successful economy looks like." -- Publisher's description.


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Economic analysis and infrastructure investment
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ISBN: 022680061X 022680058X 9780226800585 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

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Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to the near-term macroeconomic benefits, such as job creation, associated with infrastructure spending; others point to the long-term effects of such spending on productivity and economic growth. 'Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment' explores the links between infrastructure investment and economic outcomes, analyzing key economic issues in the funding and management of infrastructure projects.


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The coming prosperity : how entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy
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ISBN: 0199795177 9786613624086 019979524X 0190258489 128059425X 9780199795246 661362408X 9780199795178 0199930848 9780190258481 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Ours is the most dynamic era in human history. The benefits of four centuries of technological and organizational change are at last reaching a previously excluded global majority. This transformation will create large-scale opportunities in richer countries like the United States just as it has in poorer countries now in the ascent.In The Coming Prosperity, Philip E. Auerswald argues that it is time to overcome the outdated narratives of fear that dominate public discourse and to grasp the powerful momentum of progress. Acknowledging the gravity of today's greatest global challenges-like clim


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The Potential Macroeconomic Impact of the Unconventional Oil and Gas Boom in the United States
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ISBN: 1475522029 1475551363 Year: 2015 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper uses two of the IMF's structural macroeconomic models to estimate the potential global impact of the boom in unconventional oil and natural gas in the United States. The results suggest that the impact on the level of U.S. real GDP over roughly the next decade could be significant, but modest, ranging between 1 and 1½ percent. Further, while the impact on the U.S. energy trade balance will be large, most results suggest that its impact on the overall U.S. current account will be negligible. The impact outside of the United States will be modestly positive on average, but most countries dependent on energy exports will be affected adversely.

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