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Changing energy : the transition to a sustainable future
Perkins, John H. - 2017
"Changing Energy outlines how humanity came to its current energy economy through three previous energy transitions and … now stands poised for a necessary fourth one. Despite the immense benefits conferred by a global energy economy based … primarily on coal, oil, gas, and uranium, societies must now rebuild their energy economies to rely as much as possible on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594878
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141780
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Economic history of energy and environment
Sugiyama, Shinya (contributor); Sugiyama, S. (ed.) - 2015
From firewood to coal : deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan / S. Sugiyama and Izumi Yamada -- The government railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan / Asuka Yamaguchi -- The history of ecological environment : ideas derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292250
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Directed technical change and the british industrial revolution
Stern, David I.; Pezzey, John C. V.; Lu, YingYing - In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and … 8 (2021) 6, pp. 1079-1114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610641
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Uneven and combined confusion on the geopolitical origins of capitalism and the rise of the West
Di Muzio, Tim; Dow, Matthew - 2016
transition to coal energy and the capitalization of state power as it relates to war, colonialism and slavery. We conclude by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753672
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Directed technical change and the British industrial revolution
Stern, David I.; Pezzey, John C. V.; Lu, YingYing - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431523
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Economic History of Energy and Environment
Sugiyama, S. (ed.) - 2015
scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402136
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Finanzmarktinnovationen und Finanzkrisen : historische Perspektiven
Meyer, Wilhelm - In: Ordo : Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und … 60 (2009), pp. 325-354
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Market failures and regulatory failures : lessons from past and present financial crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Richardson, Matthew; … - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis: excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907804
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Zwischen Wettbewerbsideal und Staatsräson : die Diskussionen im Deutschen Handelstag über Regulierung und Verstaatlichung der Eisenbahnen (1861 - 1879)
Gehlen, Boris - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2011) 2, pp. 119-149
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009507304