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• Stanford economist Paul Oyer offers an informative view of modern microeconomics based on his experiences with online dating.

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• Online dating — Economic aspects.
• Economics — Sociological aspects.
• Economics — Psychological aspects.

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• Theft by deception — Competition in laxity — The most unlikely of heroes — Keating’s unholy war against the bank board — The Texas control frauds enlist Jim Wright — The Faustian bargain — The miracles, the massacre, and the speaker’s fall — M. Danny Wall : child of the senate — Final surrender : Wall takes up Neville Chamberlain’s umbrella — It’s the things you do know, but aren’t so, that cause disasters.

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• Savings and loan associations — Corrupt practices — United States.
• Savings and loan association failures — United States.
• Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.
• Prologue — Adam Smith’s moral philosophical vision : the context of his economic analysis — An inquiry: book I — An inquiry: books II and III — An inquiry: book IV — An inquiry: book V — Epilogue: Adam Smith and laissez-faire.

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• Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
• Economics — History.
• Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
• Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. fast (OCoLC)fst00051861
• Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Smith, Adam) fast (OCoLC)fst01356351
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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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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• What is economics? — pt. 1. Prices and markets. The role of prices — Price controls — An overview of prices — pt. 2. Industry and commerce. The rise and fall of businesses — The role of profits–and losses — The economics of big business — Regulation and anti-trust laws — Market and non-market economies — pt. 3. Work and pay. Productivity and pay — Minimum wage laws — Special problems in labor markets — pt. 4. Time and risk. Investment — Stocks, bonds and insurance — Special problems of time and risk — pt. 5. The national economy. National output — Money and the banking system — Government functions — Government finance — Special problems in the national economy — pt. 6. The international economy. International trade — International transfers of wealth — International disparities in wealth — pt. 7. Special economic issues. Myths about markets — Non-economic values — The history of economics — Parting thoughts.
• A presentation of economics in plain, straightforward language, without the jargon, graphs, or equations that dominate most other economic writings. This book is aimed at people with no previous study of the subject, namely the general public and beginning students in economics. Basic Economics illustrates economic principles with vivid examples from countries around the world, to make those principles memorable in a way that technical jargon or mathematical presentations may not. The fifth edition includes a new chapter on the reasons for large differences of income and wealth between nations. It also examines some popular explanations of these differences that will not stand up under scrutiny. This chapter, and the chapter on the history of economics itself, give the beginning student a larger context for understanding the role of economics.–From publisher description.

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• United States — Economic conditions.

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• 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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• Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are imposed. The costs of these failed sanctions policies can be significant for the states that impose them, their targets, and the other countries they affect. Explaining economic sanctions’ high failure rate therefore constitutes a vital endeavor for academics and policy-makers alike. This book seeks to provide an explanation, and reveals that the primary cause of this failure is third-party spoilers, or sanctions busters, who undercut sanctioning efforts by providing their targets with extensive foreign aid or sanctions-busting trade. In quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing over 60 years of U.S. economic sanctions, Bryan Early reveals that both types of third-party sanctions busters have played a major role in undermining U.S. economic sanctions. Surprisingly, his analysis also reveals that the United States’ closest allies are often its sanctions’ worst enemies. The book offers the first comprehensive explanation for why different types of sanctions busting occur and reveals the devastating effects it has on economic sanctions’ chances of success — Provided by publisher.
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• Introduction : why busted sanctions lead to broken sanctions policies — What are sanctions busters? — Assessing the consequences of sanctions busting — For profits or politics? : why third parties sanctions bust via trade and aid — Sanctions busting for profits : how the United Arab Emirates busted the U.S. sanctions against Iran — Assessing which third-party states become trade-based sanctions busters — Sanctions busting for politics : analyzing Cuba’s aid-based sanctions busters — Implications and conclusions.

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• Economic sanctions.
• United States — Foreign economic relations.
• United States — Foreign relations administration.

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

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• Nature conservation — Economic aspects.
• Ecosystem services.

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• 1. Introduction / Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn — 2. The economic analysis of biodiversity / Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn — Part I. Concepts and Measurement. 3. Biodiversity : its meanings, roles, and status / Georgina M. Mace 4. Identifying and mapping biodiversity : where can we damage? / Kathy J. Willis, Marc Macias-Fauria, Alexandros Gasparatos, and Peter Long 5. The UK National Ecosystem Assessment : valuing changes in ecosystem services / Ian J. Bateman, Grischa Perino et al. — Part II. Valuing Biodiversity. 6. Valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity / Giles Atkinson, Ian J. Bateman, and Susana Mourato 7. The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (TEEB) : challenges and responses / Pavan Sukhdev, Heidi Wittmer, and Dustin Miller — Part III. Natural Capital and Accounting. 8. Natural capital / Edward B. Barbier 9. Biodiversity and national accounting / Kirk Hamilton — Part IV. International and Development Aspects. 10. Biodiversity, poverty, and development : a review / Charles Palmer and Salvatore Di Falco 11. Regulating global biodiversity : what is the problem? / Timothy Swanson and Ben Groom — Part V. Policy Instruments and Incentives. 12. Do biodiversity policies work? : the case for Conservation evaluation 2.0 / Daniela A. Miteva, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Paul J. Ferraro 13. Are investments to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services aligned? / Stephen Polasky, Kris Johnson et al. 14. Incentives, private ownership, and biodiversity conservation / Nick Hanley, Simanti Banerjee, Gareth D. Lennox, and Paul R. Armsworth 15. On the potential for speculation to threaten biodiversity loss / Joanne C. Burgess, Chris J. Kennedy, and Charles (Chuck) Mason.
• This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and to suggest how this very urgent problem should be addressed. This collection of high-quality chapters addresses the economic issues involved in biodiversity protection. This book focuses on the economics, but incorporates the underpinning science and philosophy, combining the application of a number of theoretical ideas with a series of policy cases. The authors are drawn from leading scholars in their specific areas of economics, philosophy, and conservation biology.–COVER.

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• Biodiversity conservation — Economic aspects.
• Biodiversity conservation — Government policy.
• Environment and Ecology. ukslc
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• Biodiversity conservation — Government policy. fast (OCoLC)fst01429872

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