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  • Aquanomics

    Water Markets and the Environment

    Edited by Randy Simmons ...
    Series series Independent Studies in Political Economy
    Water is becoming increasingly scarce. If recent usage trends continue, shortages are inevitable. Aquanomics discusses some of the instruments and policies that may be implemented to postpone, or even avoid, the onset of water crises. These policies include establishing secure and transferable private water rights and extending these rights to uses that traditionally have not been allowed, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Beyond Politics

    The Roots of Government Failure

    by Randy T. Simmons, Gordon Tullock ...
    Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that “market failures”—the presumed inability of a free market to deliver certain goods and services deemed to be in the public interest—are common and require government intervention to protect the public good. But is this actually the case?Beyond Politics carefully scrutinizes this view through the modern theory of public choice and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beyond Politics

    The Roots of Government Failure and the Case for Private Action

    by Randy T. Simmons, Diana W. Thomas ...
    Fully revised and updated third edition of Randy T. Simmon's landmark examination of "government failure" viewed through the lens of public choice theory, explaining how governments produce stagnation, scandals, and public distrust.Are there really as many market failures as we’ve been led to believe? Or might these be better understood as political failures?Designed both as a stand-alone guide ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Seventy-Five Things Black People Won’T Stop Doing …

    by Randy Simons ...
    Increase our joy;Push aside our anger.Learn perfect love for one and each other;Eliminate the sorrows that the desire toCoexist may grow strong, oh so strongthatHate will have no place among we.Even that we may find untold pleasuresIn coexistence with one and the other! YourBrother or sister. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Green vs. Green

    The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
    Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new sources of energy face their own set of political, administrative, and legal challenges. Green vs. Green ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Nature Unbound

    Bureaucracy vs. the Environment

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Kenneth J. Sim, Randy T. Simmons ...
    What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature?In 1934, former U.S. Forest Service offcial Aldo Leopold, a godfather to the modern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Politics Of Realignment

    Party Change In The Mountain West

    by Peter F Galderisi, Michael S Lyons, Randy T. Simmons, John G Francis ...
    The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984 prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a national realignment of the electorate toward the Republican party. The 1986 elections, however, proved any predictions of a national realignment to be premature. A major shift in voting patterns had not taken place—except in the Mountain West, where a realignment was already in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Eco-nomics

    What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

    by Richard L. Stroup ...
    It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws are ineffective and others have had unintended consequences. In this updated edition, Richard ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy

    by Juliet Christian-Smith, Peter H. Gleick, Heather Cooley, Lucy Allen, Amy Vanderwarker, Kate A. Berry ...
    It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we as a nation need to do to manage our most vital resource. In this book, leading thinkers at world ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Environmental Markets

    A Property Rights Approach

    by Terry L. Anderson, Gary D. Libecap ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation, and subsidization with a market-based property rights ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Conservancy

    The Land Trust Movement in America

    by Richard Brewer ...
    Land trusts, or conservancies, protect land by owning it. Although many people are aware of a few large land trusts—The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, for instance—there are now close to 1,300 local trusts, with more coming into being each month. American land trusts are diverse, shaped by their missions and adapted to their local environments. Nonetheless, all land trusts are ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation

    Edited by T. Anderson, D. Leal ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides the next generation of environmental market ideas and the chapters are co-authored with young scholars and policy analysts who represent the next generation of environmental leaders. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD