Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:William M. Alley

Secret Science Accusations In 2018, air pollution was on the front lines of yet another major attack on science. In April, Scott Pruitt held a press conference to announce a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 26,2020 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Callum Roberts

Oyster dredging in the nineteenth century. Dredges were dragged across the seabed to dislodge clumps of oysters from reefs along with many other organisms that were later discarded. Source: Whymper, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Stephen Moore

Agricultural Gains Source: Vaclav Smil, Enriching the Earth, p. 201 Natural Gas–Derived Fertilizer The topic of agricultural fertilizers may not intrigue the 81 percent of the U.S. population that now ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mimi Sheller

DISASTER (IM)MOBILITIES While everyday situations are important, sometimes more extreme events can help reveal some of the usually hidden actions of infrastructural space, including their repair and maintenance in the ...
( Category: Asian February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Chandran Nair

The Current View of Prosperity In the Western economic model, which has been exported to the rest of the world, prosperity is equivalent to consumption. The more one consumes and ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-17 | Author:Jarrett Walker

DENSEVILLE’S INTENSIFICATION EFFECTS Up to now, we’ve assumed that everyone in both communities is equally likely to use public transit. But that assumption is not quite right, because the difference ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Jeremy Green

Global fault lines The intellectual vision championed by the disciples of the Mont Pelerin Society has had devastating effects. Stripped of its commitments to full employment, capital controls, and a ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-23 | Author:Kymlicka, Will;

From ‘Norms’ and ‘Standards’ to Conflict Prevention/Resolution It seems then that neither of the two strategies I have looked at so far has effectively addressed the problem that originally inspired ...
( Category: Cultural Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Bakken

CHAPTER 7 Violence, Torture, and War Crimes Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. —ISAAC ASIMOV, FOUNDATION Although one job of the military is obviously to fight when necessary, ...
( Category: Military Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Partha Dasgupta

The rate of return on investment is r − 1. The saving rate can now be defined as from which it follows that Notice that s (t) lies in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Sharyn O'Halloran

Figure 13.13 Histogram of Relative Reduction in EEPE over All Netting Sets. (0 out of 1,378 have more than 150% increase and are not shown, 0 of those have zero ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Barbara Goodwin

The officers selected by lot in Ancient Athens referred to themselves as being chosen by chance. Their concept of chance may seem vitiated, however, because there were elements of planning ...
( Category: History & Theory February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael E [Michael E]

Some Recent Cases Sanctions have been employed as an instrument of statecraft for years. Gary Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, and Kimberly Elliott considered more than 100 examples from just the twentieth ...
( Category: Asian February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Janis Mimura [Janis Mimura]

Kamei was interested not so much in Germany’s specific technological inventions, but in the mindset and spirit that informed its inventions. He believed that ultimately the source of technological innovation ...
( Category: Asian February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Deborah Hargreaves

It’s not all about money This fits in with other research on executive pay, suggesting that highly-skilled people in positions of key responsibility, already well-paid in comparison to wider society, ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 22,2020 )