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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.
• Introduction — The framework of analysis — Aggregate demographic data: an assessment — Economic growth: a general perspective — The Kinai — Morioka — Okayama — Fertility, mortality, and life expectancy in four villages — Population control in Tokugawa Japan — The village of Fujito: a case study — A comparison of population trends — Conclusion — Glossary of Japanese terms.

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• Japan — Economic conditions — To 1868.
• Japan — Population — History.
• Population — Japan.
• Population Dynamics — Japan.
• Socioeconomic Factors — Japan.
• Japon — Conditions économiques — 1868-
• Japon — Population — Histoire.
• Japan. fast (OCoLC)fst01204082
• Japan. swd
• Geschichte 1600-1868 swd
• To 1868 fast
• Japan Economic conditions To 1868
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• DVD, NTSC region 1 16:9 presentation Dolby digital 5.1.
• In English with optional English descriptive subtitles.
• Narrated by Naomi Klein.
• Edited by Nick Hector, Mary Lampson director of photography, Mark Ó Fearghaíl original music by David Wall and Adam White co-producers, Driss Benyaklef, Katie McKenna, Mridu Chandra.
• Originally produced in 2015.
• Inspired by the book by Naomi Klein.
• Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography in This Changes Everything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. Unlike many films about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers, This Changes Everything will leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the center of it all. Will this film change everything? Absolutely not. But you could, by answering its call to action. –Distributor’s website.

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• Environmental economics.
• Climatic changes — Economic aspects.
• Environmental policy — Economic aspects.
• Global environmental change — Economic aspects.
• Capitalism.
• Environmental protection — Citizen participation.
• Klein, Naomi, 1970- — Film adaptations.
• Environmental films. lcgft
• Documentary films. lcgft
• Film adaptations. lcgft
• Feature films. lcgft
• Nonfiction films. lcgft
• Feature films — United States. local
• Feature films — Canada. local

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• Introduction — Household income: Household income trends Household income, 2014 — Men’s income: Men’s income trends Men’s incomes, 2014 — Women’s income: Women’s income trends Women’s income, 2014 — Wealth — Poverty: Poverty trends Poverty, 2014.

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• Income — United States — Statistics.
• Income distribution — United States — Statistics.
• Discretionary income — United States — Statistics.
• United States — Economic conditions — 2009- — Statistics.
• United States — Economic conditions — 2001-2009 — Statistics.
• United States — Economic conditions — 1981-2001 — Statistics.
• Household surveys — United States.
• Economic history. fast (OCoLC)fst00901974
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Since 1981 fast
• Statistics. fast (OCoLC)fst01423727

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-441) and index.
• The generations — Attitudes — Education — Health — Housing — Income — Labor force — Living arrangements — Population — Spending — Time use — Wealth.

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• Consumers — United States — Statistics.
• United States — Population — Statistics.
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• The working poor: invisible in America, with a new epilogue. –Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Preface — Introduction : at the edge of poverty — ch. 1. Money and its opposite — ch. 2. Work doesn’t work — ch. 3. Importing the Third World — ch. 4. Harvest of shame — ch. 5. The daunting workplace — ch. 6. Sins of the fathers — ch. 7. Kinship — ch. 8. Body and mind — ch. 9. Dreams — ch. 10. Work works — ch. 11. Skill and will — Epilogue– Notes — Index.

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• Poor — United States.
• Working class — United States — Economic conditions.
• Working class — United States — Finance, Personal.
• Cost and standard of living — United States.
• Wages — United States.
• Income — United States.
• Debt — United States.

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• Companion volume to: Household spending : who spends how much on what. 20th edition.
• For analysis of household spending trends by single product category, see New Strategist’s Who’s Buying reports –Page 7.
• Text in English.
• Based on data collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 Consumer Expenditure Survey, this report analyzes the demographics of household spending in the United States on hundreds of products and services, by age, income, household type, race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and educational attainment of householder. Identifies which households spend the most on those products and services, and which control the largest share of spending.
• Includes index.
• Alcoholic beverages — Apparel — Computers — Education — Entertainment — Financial services — Furnishings and equipment — Gifts for people in other households — Groceries — Health care — Household services — Housekeeping supplies — Personal care products and services — Reading material — Restaurants and carry-outs — Shelter — Telephone service and equipment — Tobacco products — Transportation — Travel — Utilities — Appendix A: About the Consumer Expenditure Survey — Appendix B: Percent reporting expenditure and amount spent, average quarter 2013 — Appendix C: Spending by product and service, ranked by amount spent, 2013 — Appendix D: Household spending trends, 2000 to 2013 — Glossary.

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• Consumers — United States — Statistics.
• Consumer behavior — United States — Statistics.
• Consumer goods — United States — Statistics.
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• Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon–it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels, when in fact we know exactly how to do it–it just requires breaking every rule in the free market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the lightbulbs. It’s about changing the world–before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap–or we sink. Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. This one is about to upend the debate about the stormy era already upon us — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-525) and index.
• One way or another, everything changes — Part I. Bad timing : The right is right: the revolutionary power of climate change — Hot money: how free market fundamentalism helped overheat the planet — Public and paid for: overcoming the ideological blocks to the next economy — Planning and banning: slapping the invisible hand, building a movement — Beyond extractivism: confronting the climate denier within — Part II. Magical thinking : Fruits, not roots: the disastrous merger of big business and big green — No messiahs: the green billionaires won’t save us — Dimming the sun: the solution to pollution is … pollution? — Part III. Starting anyway : Blockadia: the new climate warriors — Love will save this place: democracy, divestment, and the wins so far — You and what army?: Indigenous rights and the power of keeping our word — Sharing the sky: the atmospheric commons and the power of paying our debts — The right to regenerate: moving from extraction to renewal — The leap years: just enough time for impossible.

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• Environmental economics.
• Environmental policy — Economic aspects.
• Climatic changes — Economic aspects.
• Global environmental change — Economic aspects.
• Capitalism.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
• The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories-why they’re wrong, the harm they’ve done, and the theories that would vastly improve on them. Jeff Madrick-former New York Times business columnist and now Harper’s economics columnist-mounts a comprehensive case against prevailing mainstream economic thinking, illustrating how it has damaged markets, infrastructure, and individual livelihoods, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted investment financial crisis after financial crisis poor public education and public transportation gross inequality of income and wealth, and stagnating wages uncontrolled military spending and a failed healthcare system that delivers far less than it costs. Using the Great Recession as his foremost case study, Madrick shows how the decisions America should have made before, during, and after the financial crisis were suppressed by popular theory, and how the consequences are still being felt here and around the globe. And he examines the too-often-marginalized good ideas of modern economics, and convincingly argues just how beneficial they might be if only they can gain greater traction among policy makers — Provided by publisher.
• Introduction : Damage — The beautiful idea : the invisible hand — Say’s Law and austerity economics — Government’s limited social role : Friedman’s Folly — Low inflation is all that matters — There are no speculative bubbles — Globalization : Friedman’s Folly writ large — Economics is a science.

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• Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world’s most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs’s twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-519) and index.
• Introduction to sustainable development — What is sustainable development? — An introduction to economic growth — Continuing poverty in the midst of plenty — Global environmental threats caused by economic development — Pathways to sustainable development — An unequal world. Incomes around the world — Urban-rural inequality — Income inequality within countries — Measuring wellbeing — Convergence or divergence? — A brief history of economic development. The age of modern economic growth — The Industrial Revolution begins in England — The great waves of technological change — The diffusion of economic growth — Economic development since World War II: the making of globalization — Why some countries developed while others stayed poor. The idea of clinical economics — A further look at geography: transport, energy, disease, and crops — The role of culture: demography, education and gender — The role of politics — Which countries are still stuck in poverty? — Ending extreme poverty. The reasons to believe that extreme poverty can be ended — Strategies to end extreme poverty — South Asia: the continuing challenge of food supply — A closer look at official development assistance — Designing practical interventions: the case of the Millennium Villages — Planetary boundaries. Planetary boundaries — Growth dynamics — The case of energy — The case of food — Population dynamics and sustainable development — Economic growth within planetary boundaries — Social inclusion. The ethics of wealth, poverty, and inequality — United Nations declarations, covenants, and the MDGs — Divided societies — Forces of widening inequalities — Gender inequality — Education for all. Life cycle approach to human development — Early childhood development — The rising returns of education and the supply response — Social mobility — The role of higher education in technological advance — Health for all. Universal health coverage — Poverty and disease — Designing and financing primary health systems in low

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• Sustainable development.
• Economic development — Environmental aspects.
• Urbanization.
• Climatic changes.
• Social change.
• Biodiversity.

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• Special edition of Business statistics of the United States –Cover.
• Personal income and employment by region, state, and area. Region State Metropolitan statistical areas — Gross domestic product by region, state, and area — Income and poverty by state.
• This publication presents data on personal income, employment, and gross domestic product for the United States as a whole, and also by region, state, and metropolitan statistical area (MSA). In addition, Patterns of Economic Change by State and Area includes a section on poverty — Publisher’s description.

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• Labor supply — United States — Statistics.
• Wages — United States — Statistics.
• Gross domestic product — United States — Statistics.
• United States — Economic conditions — 2009- — Statistics.
• United States — Commerce — Statistics.
• U.S. states — Economic conditions — 21st century — Statistics.
• Income — United States — Statistics.
• Commerce. fast (OCoLC)fst00869279
• Economic history. fast (OCoLC)fst00901974
• Since 2009 fast
• Statistics. fast (OCoLC)fst01423727

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