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The economic approach to environmental policy : the selected essays of A. Myrick Freeman III

Freeman, A. Myrick - 1998

The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy draws together a selection of Myrick Freeman's most influential papers on key analytical and policy issues in the field of environmental economics. The papers collected in this significant volume cover a wide range of topics pertinent to the study of...

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The evolution of water resource planning and decision making

Russell, Clifford S. (contributor); … - 2009

water planning / Jerome Delli Priscoli -- Appendix 2.2 Nebraska natural resource districts -- 3. The theory and practice of …

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Economics, entropy, and the environment : the extraordinary economics of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Lozada, Gabriel A. - 1999

This extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgesçu-Roegen's economics

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Marx, Veblen, and contemporary institutional political economy : principles and unstable dynamics of capitalism

O'Hara, Phillip Anthony - 2000

capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable … Schumpeterian perspectives. The nature of institutions in the growth and instability of capitalism is then explored with reference … author concludes, using institutional-evolutionary themes of political economy, that the evolution of modern capitalism is …

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Consumption and growth : recovery and structural change in the US economy

Gualerzi, Davide - 2001

theory of effective demand. Taking Schumpeter's views on economic development as a starting point, the author proposes an … examines the role of demand with respect to the theory of structural change and the theory of consumption at both the micro and …

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

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Economic valuation of river systems

Hitzhusen, Fredrick J. (contributor) - 2007

1. The role of biology and ecological engineering in watershed and river restoration -- 2. Codification, case studies, and methods for economic analysis of river systems -- 3. Estimating willingness to pay for additional protection of Ohio surface waters : contingent valuation of water quality...

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Competitive electricity markets and sustainability

Lévêque, François (contributor) - 2006

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...

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Inequality, consumer credit and the saving puzzle

Brown, Christopher - 2008

. While synthesizing the Keynesian theory of consumption with the Institutional theory of habit selection (brought up to date …1. Consumer credit and effective demand -- 2. The household debt surge and the theory of habit selection -- 3. A brief …

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Incentives, regulations and plans : the role of states and nation-states in smart growth planning

Knaap, Gerrit-Jan (contributor) - 2007

This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...

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