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  • Technology and American Economic Growth

    by Nathan Rosenberg ...
    In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology

    Some American Perspectives

    by Nathan Rosenberg ...
    Series series The Graz Schumpeter Lectures
    Schumpeter's profoundly influential work developed the notion of the endogeneity of technology, and offered illuminating historical analyses of how and why some social systems have managed to generate innovation. This new interpretation explores Schumpeter's central ideas, and examines the ways in which the concept of endogeneity can illuminate rec ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

    Edited by Bronwyn H. Hall, Nathan Rosenberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbook of the Economics of Innovation
    Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. The economics of property rights and patents, in addition to industry applications, are also surveyed through literature reviews and predictions about fruitful research directions. Two volumes, available as a set or sold separately - Expert articles consider the best ways to establish optimal ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

    Edited by Bronwyn H. Hall, Nathan Rosenberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbook of the Economics of Innovation
    How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and environment, our ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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    by Roger Pielke Jr. ...
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  • Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

    A Story of Economic Discovery

    by David Warsh ...
    "What The Double Helix did for biology, David Warsh's Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations does for economics." —Boston GlobeA stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centered on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells ... Read more

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  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

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  • Degrowth

    by Prof. Giorgos Kallis ...
    Series series The Economy Key Ideas
    The term “degrowth” has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable – its costs exceed its benefits – and advocates a transformation of economies so that they produce and consume less, differently and better.Giorgos Kallis provides a clear and succinct ... Read more

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  • How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

    by Andrew J. Hoffman ...
    Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

    Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

    by David Colander, Roland Kupers ...
    How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policyComplexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ... Read more

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  • Growth for Good

    Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe

    by Alessio Terzi ...
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It’s the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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