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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
Troesken, Werner - The MIT Press
In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial. The harmful effects of lead water pipes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991828
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
Troesken, Werner - The MIT Press
In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial. The harmful effects of lead water pipes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973003
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Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses
Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Global warming is debated largely in environmental terms. The contributions in this book focus instead on the economic effects of global warming, providing an excellent summary of current thinking on this important issue. They raise such crucial questions as: Which countries will suffer the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973118
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973014