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Dynamic Modeling of In-Use Cement Stocks in the United States
Kapur, Amit; Keoleian, Gregory; Kendall, Alissa; … - 2008
A dynamic substance-flow model is developed to characterize the stocks and flows of cement utilized during the 20th century in the United States, using the generic cement life cycle as a systems boundary. The motivation for estimating historical inventories of cement stocks and flows is to...
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451445
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Essays on business cycle analysis and demography
Sarferaz, Samad - 2010
Bayesian dynamic factor model. The essay finds that volatility increased in the interwar periods, which is reversed after World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467169
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Kreislaufwirtschaft im Baubereich : Steuerung zukünftiger Stoffströme am Beispiel von Gips
Arendt, Markus - 2001
Ziel der Arbeit ist es, den Bestand des Stofflagers im Bauwesen im Hinblick auf seine Eigenschaft als zukünftigen Input für die Reduktionswirtschaft und damit als Ressource für die Bauwirtschaft von morgen zu beschreiben. Hierzu wird der Begriff des Dispersionsgrads eingeführt, der mit Hilfe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476237
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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO
Friedman, Steven J - 2010
planning and implementation. The World Bank heralds both countries as prime examples of how market-friendly capitalist systems … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 … underlying causes of this consistently well above average growth in answering several key questions: What policies did the World …
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Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: a view suggested by Adam Smith
Ho, Jun Seong; Lewis, James B.; Han-Rog, Kang - 2008
The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded subsistence to achieve...
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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2005
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
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Economic development from the perspective of evolutionary economic theory
Nelson, Richard R.
Sanjaya Lall saw economic development as an evolutionary process, with technological learning at its heart. This essay lays out the key differences between an evolutionary theory of economic activity and change, and the neoclassical theory as articulated in economic text books. It argues that...
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A magyar mezõgazdaság sikeressége a hatvanas hetvenes években
Dimeny, Imre; Lakner, Zoltan - 2008
world. The aim of this article is to analyse the driving forces and socio-economic environment in the formation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446438
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Uneven development and the terms of trade: A theoretical and empirical analysis
Erten, Bilge - 2010
Despite the voluminous literature on North-South macroeconomic interactions and the key role of terms of trade variations in growth transmission from one region to another, a significant research gap persists for two reasons. First, there has been very little empirical work on testing of the...
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