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“matthew e kahn”

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  • Adapting to Climate Change

    Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future

    by Matthew E. Kahn ...
    A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it's clear that we will need to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Remote

    How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities

    by Matthew E. Kahn ...
    A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better.As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection and prevent spread of the virus. In the aftermath of this shift, a significant number of workers remain at least partially remote. It is ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Climatopolis

    How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future

    by Matthew E Kahn ...
    "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- NatureWe have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn argues ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities

    by Matthew E. Kahn ...
    Narrated by Joe Knezevich ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better.As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection and prevent spread of the virus. In the aftermath of this shift, a significant number of workers remain at least partially remote. It is ... Read more

    $17.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities

    by Matthew E. Kahn, Mac McComas ...
    How can urban leaders in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis make the smart choices that can lead their city to make a comeback?The urban centers of New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco have enjoyed tremendous economic success and population growth in recent years. At the same time, cities like Baltimore and Detroit have experienced population loss and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Heroes and Cowards

    The Social Face of War

    by Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn ...
    When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community? Using the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn answer these questions and uncover the vivid stories, social influences, and crucial networks ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Blue Skies over Beijing

    Economic Growth and the Environment in China

    by Siqi Zheng, Matthew E. Kahn ...
    How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet

    by Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi (, Sara Foster, Andrew Dana Hudson, Brian Burt, Matthew Hanson-Kahn, Rasha Barrage, Nancy Lord, Martin Hastie, D.A. Baden, Steve Willis ...
    These 24 stories are written by a variety of authors, with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there.The stories are diverse in style, ranging from whodunnits to sci-fi, romance to family drama, comedy to tragedy, and cover a range of solution types from high-tech to nature-based solutions, to more systemic aspects ... Read more

    $5.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Lost Cause

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAn unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all.“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortress of SolitudeThe Ministry for t... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Canadian Miracle

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers' efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as Cory Doctorow's novel The Lost Cause.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights ... Read more

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  • The Bezzle

    A Martin Hench Novel

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Series series The Martin Hench Novels
    New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He ... Read more

    $11.99 USD