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  • When Federal Climate Policy Works

    Benefits, Business, and Politics

    Series series American and Comparative Environmental Policy
    An original analysis of the federal government’s sectoral climate policy accomplishments over the last five decades, with recommendations for policy makers.When Federal Climate Policy Works challenges the widely accepted belief that the federal government has been unable to adopt effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Roger Karapin and David Vogel argue that the federal ... Read more

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  • Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Modern Sub-Saharan Africa

    Series series History (R0)
    Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time. Although we have been living with these phenomena for centuries, they have only recently become part of the daily lives of many in the West since the dawn of the millennium. In some countries, they have become so prevalent that they shape the daily lives and habits of citizens. For these reasons, it is of ... Read more

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  • California Greenin'

    How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader

    by David Vogel ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change. How has this ... Read more

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  • Day of the Dragonfly

    by David Vogel ...
    Day of the Dragonfly is an epic story of the struggle against poverty. Beginning in rural Brazil during the Great Depression this Odyssey ends in 1975 on a broken-down chaise longue in front of a trailer in Miami. Two of the three "books" that make up the novel involve heroic journeys – a twelve-year-old girl seeking safety, a fourteen-year-old boy searching for land free from drought. They are ... Read more

    $6.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Israel

    The Dynamics of Change and Continuity

    Series series Israeli History, Politics and Society
    These essays examine changes in Israel's political, social and economic institutions, and describe how Israeli culture and institutions are resisting convergence. They are in four categories: political institutions and organizations; political economy; ethnicity and religion; and public policy. ... Read more

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  • The Market for Virtue

    The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

    by David Vogel ...
    In the highly praised The Market for Virtue, David Vogel presents a clear, balanced analysis of the contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the United States and Europe. In this updated paperback edition, Vogel discusses recent CSR initiatives and responds to new developments in the CSR debate. He asserts that while the movement has achieved success in improving some labor, ... Read more

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  • Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics

    An Anthology

    Series series Religion and Business Ethics
    In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Events in the recent past make clear people in business urgently need to focus on the moral dimension of practices and behaviors. Courses in business ethics are ... Read more

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  • Barriers or Benefits?

    Regulation in Transatlantic Trade

    by David Vogel ...
    Government health, safety, and environmental standards have, in the past two decades, often created barriers to international trade. These non-tariff barriers have become the focus of trade disputes, negotiations, and agreements. This book explains the dynamics of conflict and cooperation over consumer and environmental regulation between the European Union and the United States. It explores the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Global Challenges in Responsible Business

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Management
    Corporate responsibility has gone global. It has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. Increasingly, it is argued that business must play a constructive role in addressing massive global challenges. Business is not responsible for causing most of the problems associated with, for example, extreme poverty and hunger, child mortality and HIV/AIDS ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Politics of Precaution

    Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States

    by David Vogel ...
    The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A Small Miscellany

    by David Vogel ...
    This book contains seven short stories. Six of them are from the author's as yet unpublished travel journal and describe real events that would be of interest to a reader of fiction. The seventh is derived from an unpublished book of stand-up comedy. ... Read more

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    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

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