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Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics

Daly, Herman E. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite...

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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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