Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
The Right to Know
Transparency for an Open World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they...
Frontier Investor
How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? Veteran investor Marko Dimitrijevic argues that they can be found in frontier markets, which account for seventy-one of the world's seventy-five fastest-growing economies and 19 percent of the world's GDP. Yet many investors ignore them....
by Wyatt Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them. In the wake of World War II,...
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate...
Green Capital
A New Perspective on Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity).
Although...
Coping with the Climate Crisis
Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Reducing carbon emissions is the most complex political and economic problem humanity has ever confronted. Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be effective tools for national resources revenue management. These state-owned investments, funded by commodity exports, foreign exchange reserves, or other national assets, are adaptable to the challenges posed by financial shocks and have been successfully employed...
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social...
How Much Inequality Is Fair?
Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Many in the United States feel that the nation’s current level of economic inequality is unfair and that capitalism is not working for 90% of the population. Yet some inequality is inevitable. The question is: What level of inequality is fair? Mainstream economics has offered little guidance on...
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries
A Structuralist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect...
Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models...
Retreat from a Rising Sea
Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and...