Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Meaning of Economic Development -- Chapter 2: Economic Activity and Nature -- Chapter 3: Viewing the Future -- Chapter 4: Inequality and Policy Choices for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 5: Weak versus Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 6: Measures and...

Challenging the certainty that ecological preservation is incompatible with economic growth, Green Capital shifts the focus from the scarcity of raw materials to the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). While we...

The uninterrupted flow of oil is essential to globalisation and increasingly so as manufacturing and markets move Eastwards to Asia. All too often the movement of oil by ocean is something taken for granted, yet it is fraught with difficulty. This book looks at the way oil is moved and consumed...

The authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Summary -- Tables and figures -- 1 Policy stability and economic growth: lessons from the Great Recession -- Introduction -- The Great Recession compared with earlier recessions -- The principles of good policy -- Monetary policy: to the Taylor rule...

Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Economic Growth, Wellbeing and Protecting the Future: An Overview of the Castles Symposium -- Part One: The Role of Economics in Defining and Promoting Wellbeing -- 2. Economic Growth and Wellbeing: Ian Castles' Contribution --...

Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: New Model for Economic Growth -- 1. Reform and China's Long-Term Growth and Development -- 2. China's Shift from the Demographic Dividend to the Reform Dividend -- 3. Structural Imbalance, Inequality and Economic Growth...

GROWING POPULATIONS, CHANGING LANDSCAPES -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- STUDY REGIONS -- PROJECT DESIGN AND FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- PART I Population and Land Use in India, China, and the United States: Context, Observations, and Findings -- 1...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- Software and the New Economy -- II PROCEEDINGS -- Introduction--Dale W. Jorgenson -- The Economics of Software--William J. Raduchel -- Panel I - The Role of Software - What Does Software Do? -- Panel II - How Do We Make Software and Why Is...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Overview of the Findings and Recommendations -- I INTRODUCTION -- The Emergence of the New Economy--Dale W. Jorgenson -- II FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Findings and Recommendations -- III SUMMARY OF THE NRC CONFERENCES ON THE NEW...