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  • The History and Future of Technology

    Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The History and Future of Economics

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The purpose of this book is three-fold. The first purpose is to posit that the fundamental substance of the universe is energy, and that energy is required (consumed) for any material transformation, or information transmission. The labor theory of value, articulated by the physiocrats and elaborated by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, J.B. Say and Karl Marx was a rough first approximation of the value ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • On Capitalism and Inequality

    Progress and Poverty Revisited

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people’s money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Bubble Economy

    Is Sustainable Growth Possible?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks “too big to fail,” financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Economics and the Environment

    A Materials Balance Approach

    by Allen V. Kneese, Robert U. Ayres, Ralph C. d'Arge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This monograph length report, first published in 1970, originated from a program of research at Resources for the Future that dealt with the management of residuals and of environmental quality. It presents some of the broad concepts that the program was based on and represents the effort to break out of the traditional approach in pollution and policy research, which had treated air, water, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 8 Major Ways to Use Today? Technology to Lower Energy Usage (and They Are Not Solar, Wind, and Nuclear)

    by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres ...
    Series series FT Press Delivers Elements
    This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats.Finally: a coherent, integrated energy strategy based on techniques and technologies that have already been proven in the real world!We envision a national energy strategy with eight main components. One (increased energy efficiency of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Scarcity and Growth Revisited

    Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium

    Edited by R. David Simpson, Michael A. Toman, Robert U. Ayres ...
    In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Life Cycle of Copper, Its Co-Products and Byproducts

    by Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, Ingrid Råde ...
    Series Book 13 - Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
    Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions. Partial information accounts for many failed efforts in the past. The financial implications for the proponent of the projects have often been more thoroughly analyzed than the implications for other actors. The impacts on biological diversity, or on the social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Facts

    by Alan Moran (editor), Dr Richard S. Lindzen ~ Dr Jennifer Marohasy ~ Dr Ross McKitrick ~ Dr Patrick J. Michaels ~ Dr Alan Moran ~ Jo Nova ~ Dr Garth W. Paltridge ~ Dr Ian Plimer ~ Dr Willie Soon ~ Mark Steyn~Anthony Watts, Dr John Abbot ~ Dr J. Scott Armstrong ~ Andrew Bolt ~ Dr Robert M. Carter ~ Rupert Darwall ~ James Delingpole ~ Dr Christopher Essex ~ Dr Stewart W. Franks ~ Dr Kesten C. Green ~ Donna Laframboise ~ Nigel Lawson ~ Bernard Lewin ~ ...
    Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili ... Read more

    $9.96 USD

  • Currency Wars

    The Making of the Next Global Crisis

    by James Rickards ...
    Dive into the gripping world of international ecocomics through American lawyer, investment banker, media commentator, and author, James G. Rickards's expertise and thought-provoking insights.From collapsed paper currencies and hidden agendas of soveriegn wealth funds to the very real threats of national security, James G. Rickards scrutinizes the history and disastrous outcomes of currency wars, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Precipice

    Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

    by Toby Ord ...
    In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times).**Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late.Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Endgame

    The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything

    by John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper ...
    Greece isn't the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle—when the easily managed, decades-long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and credit crisis—is affecting developed countries around the world, including the United States. For these countries, there are only two options, and neither is good—restructure the debt or reduce it through austerity measures. Endgame ... Read more

    $17.00 USD