Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Zero to Eighty in Forty -- 1- Beyond Wishful Thinking: Facts, Deductions,and Grounded Assertions About Climate and Energy -- 2- An Energy Innovation System That Works -- 3- Electric Utilities and the Three Waves of Energy...

Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth; Contents; Introduction; 1. Long-Term Trends in American Wealth Inequality; 2. The Wealth of Testators and Its Distribution: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-65; 3. The Perpetuation of Wealth: A Simulation Model; 4. The Importance of...

Intro -- FOREIGN INVESTMENTSIN THE UNITED STATES -- FOREIGN INVESTMENTSIN THE UNITED STATES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREIGN INVESTMENTAND NATIONAL SECURITY:ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- NATIONAL SECURITY -- OECD...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Our Firm: Worldview Wealth Advisors -- Worldview's Founder, Andrew Fisher: A Personal Pledge -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Part I: The Financial Challenges of a Cross-Border Life -- Chapter...

This economic and political science work is a rigorous analysis that demonstrates that although it is a privilege and a benefit for the US to have its currency, the dollar, as the leading world reserve currency, the privilege also proves to be a very significant economic and security burden...

Michael J. Brogan's Modern Budget Forecasting in the American States: Precision, Uncertainty, and Politics examines government budgeting through the analysis of budget forecast errors. This book is innovative in its ability to connect the technical aspects of budgeting with the politics of the...

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the ""tangible phase"" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans...

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fragmentation, Policy Integration, and Policy Change -- 3 US Climate Policy -- 4 Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Generating Electricity -- 5 Increasing Energy Efficiency and the Use of Alternative Energy -- 6 Transforming Transportation...