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Foundations of Macroeconomics

Its Theory and Policy

By: Henry D. Jacoby

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Foundations of Macroeconomics

Its Theory and Policy

By: Henry D. Jacoby

Covers various aspects of economic theory dealing with the determination of total output and employment, the general price level, and the rate of economic growth. This book examines theories of consumer behavior and business investment, the demand and supply of money and their effects on interest rates and the price level.

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436

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Transaction Publishers

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1412813913

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9781412813914

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

By: Andreas Schafer,John B. Heywood,Henry D. Jacoby,Ian A. Waitz

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Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

By: Andreas Schafer,John B. Heywood,Henry D. Jacoby,Ian A. Waitz

A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel. In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. The introduction of the horseless carriage solved many of these problems but has created others. Today another revolution in transportation seems overdue. Transportation consumes two-thirds of the world's petroleum and has become the largest contributor to global environmental change. Most of this increase in scale can be attributed to the strong desire for personal mobility that comes with economic growth. InTransportation in a Climate-Constrained World, the authors present the first integrated assessment of the factors affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger transportation. They examine such topics as past and future travel demand; the influence of personal and business choices on passenger travel's climate impact; technologies and alternative fuels that may become available to mitigate GHG emissions from passenger transport; and policies that would promote a more sustainable transportation system. And most important, taking into account all of these options are taken together, they consider how to achieve a sustainable transportation system in the next thirty to fifty years.

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MIT Press

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0262296896

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9780262296892

Responding to the Climate Threat

Essays on Humanity’s Greatest Challenge

By: Gary Yohe,Henry Jacoby,Richard Richels,Benjamin Santer

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Responding to the Climate Threat

Essays on Humanity’s Greatest Challenge

By: Gary Yohe,Henry Jacoby,Richard Richels,Benjamin Santer

This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about climate policy. Fighting climate change is the ultimate societal challenge, and the difficulty is not just in the wrenching adjustments required to cut greenhouse emissions and to respond to change already under way. A second and equally important difficulty is ensuring widespread public understanding of the natural and social science. This understanding is essential for an effective risk management strategy at a planetary scale. The scientific, economic, and policy aspects of climate change are already a challenge to communicate, without factoring in the distractions and deflections from organized programs of misinformation and denial. Here, four scholars, each with decades of research on the climate threat, take on the task of explaining our current understanding of the climate threat and what can be done about it, in lay language—importantly, without losing critical aspects of the natural and social science. In a series of essays, published during the 2020 presidential election, the COVID pandemic, and through the fall of 2021, they explain the essential components of the challenge, countering the forces of distrust of the science and opposition to a vigorous national response. Each of the essays provides an opportunity to learn about a particular aspect of climate science and policy within the complex context of current events. The overall volume is more than the sum of its individual articles. Proceeding each essay is an explanation of the context in which it was written, followed by observation of what has happened since its first publication. In addition to its discussion of topical issues in modern climate science, the book also explores science communication to a broad audience. Its authors are not only scientists – they are also teachers, using current events to teach when people are listening. For preserving Earth’s planetary life support system, science and teaching are essential. Advancing both is an unending task.

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Springer Nature

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3030963721

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9783030963729

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

By: Andreas Schafer,John B. Heywood,Henry D. Jacoby,Ian A. Waitz

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Book's by Henry D. Jacoby

Foundations of Macroeconomics

Foundations of Macroeconomics

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

Responding to the Climate Threat

Responding to the Climate Threat

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

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