Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Scott, Hal S.;

Notes 1. Committee on the Global Financial System, Asset encumbrance, financial reform and the demand for collateral assets, 49 CGFS Papers 1 (May 2013). 2. Id. 3. Eric Rosengren, Speech ...
( Category: Economic Policy December 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Jane M. Hightower [Hightower, Jane M.]

In June 1972, an editorial in the British Medical Journal, noting the necessity of developing standards for acceptable daily intake of mercury, commented on the incident and its aftermath: “Unfortunately, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Chamois Holschuh

* * * “Well, that’s not what America is about. That’s not what people fought and died to create. With that, we have got a fight on our hands. The ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Derrick Jensen

Lierre Keith “The ruling religion of this planet is called patriarchy. We will not save life on earth until we dismantle masculinity.” Derrick Jensen: Lierre Keith is a writer and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Ian Angus

Cheap and Abundant Oil Although no one yet knew how big it was, production was about to start in what turned out to be the largest conventional petroleum deposit in ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira

CHAPTER 8 Green jobs to promote sustainable development: creating a value chain of solid waste recycling in Brazil Anne Posthuma and Paulo Sergio Muçouçah* Introduction The concept of ‘green growth’ ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Cleary

The fund mechanism entails that money will only be allocated to the fund when there is a budget surplus. This reflects an important point: running a budget surplus is the ...
( Category: Oil & Energy September 21,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Simanowski, Roberto;

13 DIGITAL HUMANITIES IF in former times it was possible that an unmeasured hill could insult rationality, it is now rationality that—statistically instrumentalized—insults itself. The excesses in measurement of the ...
( Category: Democracy September 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:James D. Gwartney & Richard L. Stroup & Dwight R. Lee & Tawni Hunt Ferrarini [Gwartney, James D.]

Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1982, Table 5; and U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Poverty Tables—Families, www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov4.xls. No doubt, the proponents of the ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Gretchen Bakke [Bakke, Gretchen]

NOTABLE PASSINGS In 2014 the people of Boulder voted to municipalize their electrical infrastructure. They simply bought the wires and all the rest from Xcel and bade their digging, meddling, ...
( Category: Electricity September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Richard Falk

It is my overall argument that the gaps between HF and HN are unsustainable, although assessments of the specific timing and forms of collapse remain speculative, contested, and hidden from ...
( Category: History & Theory September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...
( Category: Social Policy September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederic C. Rich

I feel unable to end this exploration of reasons why we should care for the natural world without making the simple point that both nature itself, and the caring for ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Jane Jacobs

TEN Why Backward Cities Need One Another The Shah of Iran wanted an economy like America’s, Japan’s and northern Europe’s. He thought he could have it if he had the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosa Brooks

Born in Blood We can go further: maybe the apparent permanence and ubiquity of the nation-state is just a mirage. We take it for granted that states are (and ought ...
( Category: National & International Security August 19,2016 )