Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. THE ROAD TO SPINDLETOP -- 2. THE FIRST GREAT BOOM -- 3. AFTER THE BOOM -- 4. OILY WATER AND BLACK GOLD -- 5. THE RISING TIDE OF OIL -- 6. OIL IN COW COUNTRY -- 7. THE COLOSSUS OF TEXAS BOOMS -- 8. SURVIVAL AND GROWTH -- 9. TEXAS OIL GOES TO WAR -- NOTES -- 1....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Confronting Consumption -- I - The Consumption Angle -- 2 - Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology -- 3 - Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? -- 4 - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care...

There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business...

Economic skill is an essential partner to technical skill in every step of the mining process. This book will help effectively direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of...

A group of MIT students started an electric car company in 1989 that today produces the cleanest car in America. This book chronicles the evolution of Solectria into a small but significant player in the world market for clean cars

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Cover -- Contents -- 1 The Race for Global Innovation Advantage -- 2 Explaining U.S. Economic Decline -- 3 Learning from the Wrong Master: Lessons from U.K. Industrial Decline -- 4 Why Do So Many Refuse to See U.S. Structural Economic Decline? -- 5 What Are Innovation and Innovation Policy and...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Untitled -- 1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and Advocacy -- 2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in Community Building -- 3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and Historical Racism in...

When Yellow Tail wines launched in 2001, they battled 6,500 other wineries for a share of the American market. By 2007, Yellow Tail sales in the United States exceeded the sales of all French wineries combined. How did this new business enter such a crowded market and succeed? If You're in a...

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