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Inequality
What Can Be Done?
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction.
Rick Perry and His Eggheads
Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America, A Sneak Preview from The Victory Lab
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
A fascinating, never-before-reported look into how Rick Perry, in his 2006 reelection campaign in Texas, had academics conduct real-time experiments to study what makes people vote--revealing a new side of a major politician and a game-changing trend in American politics.
Despite his folksy...
Tailspin
The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme...
Ingreso básico
Una propuesta para una sociedad libre y una economía sensata
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Philippe Van Parijs y Yannick Vanderborght quieren que el gobierno te dé dinero: una cantidad frecuente, en efectivo, que no dependa de tu situación laboral, de tu edad, de si tienes muchos o pocos recursos, de si eres mujer o eres hombre. Eso es el ingreso básico. La creciente desigualdad en la...
by Alanna Hartzok, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is only in recent human history that land has been enclosed and the rights of use given to a few people, as opposed to a whole community....
Resource Economics
An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Resource Economics engages students and practitioners in natural resource and environmental issues from both local and global standpoints. The fourth edition of this approachable but rigorous text provides a new focus on risk and uncertainty as well as new applications that address the effect of new...
Powering Forward
What Everyone Should Know About America's Energy Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. American families are installing power plants on their roofs and entire communities are switching to 100 percent renewable...
Enough
Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year-most of them children. In this powerful investigative narrative, Wall Street Journal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.
Climate...
The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
America the Possible
Manifesto for a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt...
by Thomas Linzey, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
As the co-founder and staff attorney for the nonprofit Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Thomas Linzey is engaged in the work of...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Richard J. Elkus, Jr. in his book “Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does...