Stanford University: 1318 books
Pollution Limits and Polluters’ Efforts to Comply
The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges;...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist movement, numerous local lawsuits, and several federal policy reforms. Despite the importance of environmental...
by Isaac Martin, Christopher Niedt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults—about ten million people—lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments. The scale of this home mortgage crisis is unprecedented—and it's not over. Foreclosures still displace more American homeowners every year than at...
by Robert L. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it became apparent that pricing loans in a way that is profitable for lenders and sensitive to risk is anything but simple. Increasingly, lenders are following the lead of other retailers by segmenting their market and more precisely targeting customers. To...
The Shared Society
A Vision for the Global Future of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Latin America has gone through a major transformation in the past two decades. According to the United Nations, with the discovery of new oil and mineral deposits and increases in energy exports, manufacturing and tourism, Latin America's economic growth and development will only continue, foreign...
The Gift of Global Talent
How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense...
The Green Bundle
Pairing the Market with the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The market for green products has expanded rapidly over the last decade, but most consumers need something more than eco-benefits to motivate their purchases. Magali A. Delmas and David Colgan argue that many green products now offer the total package—a "green bundle" that checks the environmental...
Learning from a Disaster
Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective.
It explains...
Growing an Entrepreneurial Business
Concepts & Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. The book is...
Adaptive Action
Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Rooted in the study of chaos and complexity, Adaptive Action introduces a simple, common sense process that will guide you and your organization into reflective action. This elegant method prompts readers to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to...
The Design of Insight
How to Solve Any Business Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems. To create meaningful change, we must train ourselves to discover previously unseen variables in day-to-day challenges. The Design of Insight is intended to...
Organizing for Reliability
A Guide for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Increasingly, scholars view reliability—the ability to plan for and withstand disaster—as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book frames...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal...