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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999
This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471458
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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste
Beede, David N. - 1995
This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that … the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day … disposing of MSW vary widely across countries in accord with the nature of the waste stream and key features of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473770
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Energy and the Environment in Economic History
Clay, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
waste, which had large mortality impacts, particularly in cities. This essay reviews long run trends in energy use and water …
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An analysis of postwar US consumption and saving
Boskin, Michael J.; Lau, Lawrence J.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000749312
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The economics of place-making policies
Glaeser, Edward L. (contributor);  … - 2008
Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not...
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Changes in the balance sheet of the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1926-1977
Ciccolo, John H.; Baum, Christopher F. - 1983
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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances
Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010
"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738354
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470927