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The global challenge of encouraging sustainable living : opportunities, barriers, policy and practice
Fudge, Shane (ed.) - 2013
This unique book illustrates that in order to address the growing urgency of issues around environmental and resource limits, it is clear that we need to develop effective policies to promote durable changes in behaviour and transform how we view and consume goods and services. It suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851700
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Growth miracles and growth debacles : exploring root causes
Bhattacharyya, Sambit - 2011
broad variations in living standards across the globe. The author examines the world’s economic history over the last five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850677
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Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards
Opocher, Arrigo (contributor); Salvadori, Neri (contributor) - 2009
1. Does economic growth ultimately lead to a "noble life"? : a comparative analysis of the predictions of Mill, Marshall and Keynes / Arrigo Opocher -- 2. The debate on education financing in the classical perspective / Mario Pomini -- 3. The role of the public sector in the thought of Hyman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851033
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International perspectives on household wealth
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2006
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851778
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International handbook on the economics of energy
Evans, Joanne (contributor); Hunt, Lester C. (contributor) - 2009
. The economics and regulation of power transmission and distribution : the developed world case / Lullit Getachew and Mark … N. Lowry -- 23. The market structure of the power transmission and distribution industry in the developed world / Lullit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851493
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Health, mortality and the standard of living in Europe and North America since 1700
Floud, Roderick (ed.) - 2014
Western World Since 1700, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press -- Floud, R., Wachter, K. and Gregory, A. (1990), Height ….W.Norton -- Fogel, R.W. (2004), The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America and the Third World, Cambridge ….D. (1979), Measuring the Condition of the World's Poor: the Physical Quality of Life Index, New York: Pergamon -- Muldrew, C …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419768
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Money and households in a capitalist economy : a gendered post Keynesian-institutional analysis
Todorova, Zdravka K. - 2009
Post Keynesian analyses of monetary production have not given much attention to households as institutions, while a good deal of the literature in feminist economics discusses households in a strictly microeconomic context, with little consideration of monetary phenomena. This book, a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850974
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Handbook on the economics of happiness
Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007
This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851597
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The economics of renewable energy
Fouquet, Roger (ed.) - 2018
Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Robert M. Solow (1974), 'The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics', American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 64(2), May,1-14 2. Partha Dasgupta and Geoffrey Heal (1974), 'The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources', Review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251668
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Changing stocks, flows and behaviors in industrial ecosystems
Ruth, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850674