Economics
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Kraft, Michael E. [Kraft, Michael E.]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Do the major environmental protection laws reviewed in this chapter need significant change? If so, what kinds of changes are most needed? 2. How good a job ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Steve Slavin

Types of Unemployment Frictional Unemployment Frictionally unemployed people are between jobs or just entering or reentering the labor market. At any given time 2 or 3 percent of the labor ...
( Category: Economics June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Michael Mandelbaum

CHINA China is the obvious candidate to disrupt the twenty-first-century international order. As the most populous country on the planet and with the highest rate of economic growth, sustained over ...
( Category: Treaties June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-15 | Author:Sean Brodrick

You’ve probably already seen a solar oven in action. Your car becomes a solar oven on hot days as the sun’s rays enter the car, are converted to heat, and ...
( Category: Disaster Relief June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-05 | Author:Chua, Amy [Chua, Amy]

2 Nor are market-dominant minorities present today in most Eastern European countries; the terrible exception of the former Yugoslavia has already been discussed. While virtually all countries in Africa are ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-07 | Author:Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

SuperFreakonomics CHAPTER 4 THE FIX IS IN—AND IT’S CHEAP AND SIMPLE It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly about how terrible the modern world is ...
( Category: Economics June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Tyler Cowen

Most Web activities do not generate jobs and revenue at the rate of past technological breakthroughs. When Ford and General Motors were growing in the early part of the twentieth ...
( Category: Planning & Forecasting June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Peter D. Schiff; John Downes

My own opinion is that while there is undoubtedly validity to the observation that demographic factors have contributed to housing demand, they in no way explain the real estate bubble ...
( Category: Introduction June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin

The sixteenth floor of AIG was already a beehive of activity, with hundreds of bankers and lawyers roaming the floors, darting into the various rooms that had been set up ...
( Category: Economic History June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Markopolos, Harry [Markopolos, Harry]

I also suggested two sets of questions for John Wilke to ask everyone he interviewed. If those people he interviewed responded that they were not aware of the strategy used ...
( Category: Systems & Planning June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Gregory Zuckerman

Pellegrini listened closely to the conversation, displaying little emotion. He became convinced that some of the executives didn’'t fully believe their own arguments. They simply were aiming to stop Paulson ...
( Category: Economic History June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Fletcher, Ian & Luttwak, Edward [Fletcher, Ian]

It doesn’t matter whether America exports computer chips, potato chips, or poker chips! They’re all just chips!657 Why would Boskin make a statement so brazenly contrary to common sense with ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:William Bonner; Addison Wiggin

Document Outline Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis Contents Introduction: Slouching toward Empire THE THEME OF THIS BOOK IN A NUTSHELL PART I: IMPERIA ABSURDUM Chapter ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-13 | Author:McMillan, John [McMillan, John]

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...
( Category: Free Enterprise June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )