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Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy: Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Hess, David J. - The MIT Press
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy in the United States. Under the banner of “green jobs,” clean energy industries and labor, environmental, and antipoverty organizations have...
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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
Lindert, Peter H. - The MIT Press
In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in...
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Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
, transition, labor markets, and education. A theme common to all the essays is the importance of education in reducing inequality …
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Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …
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