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Production, Growth, and the Environment

An Economic Approach

By: William L. Weber

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Production, Growth, and the Environment

An Economic Approach

By: William L. Weber

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost? These costs are not often realized until after the fact, when their remediation is more expensive, and sometimes not reversible. Very few books on environmental economics model the joint production of desirable and undesirable outcomes in any depth. This book fills that void. It discusses the demographic transition and the escape from the Malthusian trap. It also covers the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis that examines the relation between polluting outputs and economic welfare. The book integrates environmental valuation methods with the production possibility frontier (PPF) approach. It presents both types of outcomes in a PPF framework that accounts for scarcity and allows the concepts of technical and allocative efficiencies to be introduced and measured. The PPF can then measure technological progress/regress and can be used to measure whether resource use is sustainable over time. It can also be used to determine shadow prices for non-market desirable outputs such as ecological services and non-market undesirable by-products such as SO2, NOx, and CO2 that arise from fossil fuel combustion. The beauty of the PPF framework is that it can be depicted in simple two-dimensional diagrams that make the concepts easy to understand. The author uses this framework to introduce concepts such as technical efficiency, allocative efficiency, technological progress/regress, shadow pricing, externalities, public goods, pollution taxes, and permits. In addition, each chapter has numerous problems and discussion questions that provide examples and practice in using the introduced theories. The book also includes a chapter that shows how the solver routine in Excel can be used to measure technical and allocative efficiency. This gives you the tools to examine all outcomes and therefore make a decision that takes into account the environmental challenges along with any economic benefits.

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362

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CRC Press

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1482243059

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9781482243055

Extreme Exoticism

Japan in the American Musical Imagination

By: William Anthony Sheppard

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Extreme Exoticism

Japan in the American Musical Imagination

By: William Anthony Sheppard

Extreme Exoticism explores the role of music in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life over the past 150 years.

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641

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0190072709

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9780190072704

Refusing Ecocide

From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World

By: William K. Carroll

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Refusing Ecocide

From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World

By: William K. Carroll

Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis. Employing three core concepts within historical materialism – capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony – it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today’s deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of ‘climate capitalism’ are too little, too late. A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.

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217

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Taylor & Francis

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1040257151

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9781040257159

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

By: William E. Deal

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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

By: William E. Deal

Captures the essence of life in great civilizations of the past. Each volume in this series examines a single civilization, and covers everything from landmark events and monumental achievements to geography and everyday life.

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433

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Infobase Publishing

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0816074852

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9780816074853

American Legion Baseball

A History, 1924-2020

By: William E. Akin

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American Legion Baseball

A History, 1924-2020

By: William E. Akin

In the wake of the 1919 White Sox scandal and the suspension for life of eight players, baseball saw a precipitous decline in popularity, especially among America's youth. To combat this, a group of World War I veterans who were members of the newly formed American Legion created an organization to promote teenage interest in baseball. Led by John L. Griffith, who became the first commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, the Legion undertook the revival of baseball. In the 1920s and through the Great Depression and World War II, Legion baseball grew steadily. By 1950 it had become the principal training ground for major league players, boasting at its peak more than 16,000 teams across the country. Tracing the long history of this uniquely American institution, this work details each year's American Legion World Series and the ups and downs of participation over nearly a century.

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253

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McFarland

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1476685746

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9781476685748

Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates and Rays, Chimaeroids

Part 2

By: Henry B. Bigelow,William C. Schroeder

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Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates and Rays, Chimaeroids

Part 2

By: Henry B. Bigelow,William C. Schroeder

Part Two in the Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series describes the sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates, rays, and chimaeroids that inhabit the waters adjacent to the eastern coastline of North and Central America and the northern portion of South America. Specialist authorships of its sections include detailed species descriptions with keys, life history and general habits, abundance, range, and relation to human activity, such as economic and sporting importance. The text is written for an audience of amateur and professional ichthyologists, sportsmen, and fishermen, based on new revisions, original research, and critical reviews of existing information. Species are illustrated by exceptional black and white line drawings, accompanied by distribution maps and tables of meristic data.

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Yale University Press

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1933789123

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9781933789125

Book's by William Malm

Production, Growth, and the Environment

Production, Growth, and the Environment

Extreme Exoticism

Extreme Exoticism

Refusing Ecocide

Refusing Ecocide

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

American Legion Baseball

American Legion Baseball

Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates and Rays, Chimaeroids

Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates and Rays, Chimaeroids

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