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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz,Linda J. Bilmes,Linda Bilmes

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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz,Linda J. Bilmes,Linda Bilmes

Reveals massive expenses associated with the Iraq War in a cautionary account that evaluates the war's long-term costs, both financial and human, as well as their consequences to taxpayers.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393334171

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

America’s Best Investment

By: Linda J. Bilmes,John B. Loomis

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

America’s Best Investment

By: Linda J. Bilmes,John B. Loomis

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas, with particular application to the U.S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows, with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists, government agencies, land trusts, economists, and others to value public lands, historical sites, and related programs, such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks, wildlife refuges, and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies, this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics, land management, and nature conservation, as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks.

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126

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Routledge

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1351055763

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The People Factor

Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

By: Linda J. Bilmes,W. Scott Gould

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The People Factor

Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

By: Linda J. Bilmes,W. Scott Gould

Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset. In comparison, the U.S. federal government is a Stone Age relic, with its top-down bureaucracy, stovepiping of labor and responsibilities, and lack of training and investment in its own public servants. The inevitable result is a government not keeping up with the complex demands placed on it. In T he People Factor, Linda Bilmes and Scott Gould present a blueprint for reinvigorating the public sector in order to deliver results for America. Their premise is that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private sector and military organizations by managing its people better. Their new vision for public service is based on "The People Factor," a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and high-performing government agencies. Part One of The People Factor book shows why the U.S. personnel system needs reform, revealing the high price of inaction. Part Two lays out the specific steps that must be taken to achieve the necessary gains. Part Three focuses on how to implement the People Factor and make the authors' vision a reality. They argue that the next president needs to turn this issue into a top priority and use political capital to push reform. Highlights of the book include: • Extensive original survey research • Case studies from government and the military • Interviews with leading thinkers on strategic human capital • A number of specific proposed innovations • A detailed proposal for a nationwide effort to train and revitalize the public service

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815701578

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9780815701576

Submodularity in Dynamics and Control of Networked Systems

By: Andrew Clark,Basel Alomair,Linda Bushnell,Radha Poovendran

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Submodularity in Dynamics and Control of Networked Systems

By: Andrew Clark,Basel Alomair,Linda Bushnell,Radha Poovendran

This book presents a framework for the control of networked systems utilizing submodular optimization techniques. The main focus is on selecting input nodes for the control of networked systems, an inherently discrete optimization problem with applications in power system stability, social influence dynamics, and the control of vehicle formations. The first part of the book is devoted to background information on submodular functions, matroids, and submodular optimization, and presents algorithms for distributed submodular optimization that are scalable to large networked systems. In turn, the second part develops a unifying submodular optimization approach to controlling networked systems based on multiple performance and controllability criteria. Techniques are introduced for selecting input nodes to ensure smooth convergence, synchronization, and robustness to environmental and adversarial noise. Submodular optimization is the first unifying approach towards guaranteeing both performance and controllability with provable optimality bounds in static as well as time-varying networks. Throughout the text, the submodular framework is illustrated with the help of numerical examples and application-based case studies in biological, energy and vehicular systems. The book effectively combines two areas of growing interest, and will be especially useful for researchers in control theory, applied mathematics, networking or machine learning with experience in submodular optimization but who are less familiar with the problems and tools available for networked systems (or vice versa). It will also benefit graduate students, offering consistent terminology and notation that greatly reduces the initial effort associated with beginning a course of study in a new area.

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220

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Springer

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3319269771

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Business Risk Management Handbook

A Sustainable Approach

By: Linda S Spedding,Adam Rose

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Business Risk Management Handbook

A Sustainable Approach

By: Linda S Spedding,Adam Rose

Provides a practice-oriented overview of risk management issues with particular reference to identifying and measuring risk. Looks at some of the current risk issues and the concept of organisations creating a 'Sustainable Enterprise Risk Management' (SERM) methodology to encapsulate these risk areas with more traditional areas of risk management. Includes examples and case studies. Examines new research on the social and environmental categories of sustainability related risks.

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784

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Elsevier

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0750681748

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9780750681742

Employment and Work

By: Susanne M. Bruyère,Linda Barrington

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Employment and Work

By: Susanne M. Bruyère,Linda Barrington

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment. It is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The presentational style (concise and engaging) emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.

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449

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SAGE Publications

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1412994446

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9781412994446

The Crisis Caravan

What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

By: Linda Polman

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The Crisis Caravan

What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

By: Linda Polman

A no-holds-barred, controversial exposé of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world of humanitarian aid A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations—some 37,000—compete for a share of the $160 billion annual prize, with "fact-inflation" sometimes ramping up disaster coverage to draw in more funds. Insurgents and warring governments, meanwhile, have made aid a permanent feature of military strategy: refugee camps serve as base camps for genocidaires, and aid supplies are diverted to feed the troops. Even as humanitarian groups continue to assert the holy principle of impartiality, they have increasingly become participants in aid's abuses. In a narrative that is impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe—from the NGO-dense operations in "Afghaniscam" to the floating clinics of Texas Mercy Ships proselytizing off the shores of West Africa—to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions. It is time, Polman argues, to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds.

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239

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Metropolitan Books

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1429955767

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9781429955768

The People Factor

Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

By: Linda J. Bilmes,W. Scott Gould

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The People Factor

Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

By: Linda J. Bilmes,W. Scott Gould

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

By: Linda J. Bilmes,Joseph E. Stiglitz

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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

By: Linda J. Bilmes,Joseph E. Stiglitz

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393068080

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9780393068085

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

America’s Best Investment

By: Linda J. Bilmes,John B. Loomis

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

America’s Best Investment

By: Linda J. Bilmes,John B. Loomis

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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

The People Factor

The People Factor

Submodularity in Dynamics and Control of Networked Systems

Submodularity in Dynamics and Control of Networked Systems

Business Risk Management Handbook

Business Risk Management Handbook

Employment and Work

Employment and Work

The Crisis Caravan

The Crisis Caravan

The People Factor

The People Factor

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs

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