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“randall powell”

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  • Housing America

    Building Out of a Crisis

    Edited by Randall G. Holcombe, Benjamin Powell ...
    About seventy percent of American families own their own homes, and for many their houses represent the bulk of their net worth. As is evident by the cascading mortgage market meltdown, housing policy affects not only the quality of community life but also the economic well-being of entire nations.Although most housing in the United States is allocated in the private market, this market is heavily ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Plant Biomass Conversion

    Edited by Elizabeth E. Hood, Peter Nelson, Randall Powell ...
    A whole host of motivations are driving the development of the “renewables” industry— ranging from the desire to develop sustainable energy resources to the reduction of dangerous greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. All energy utilized on the earth is ultimately derived from the sun through photosynthesis—the only truly renewable commodity.As concerns regarding increasing energy ... Read more

    $214.00 USD

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  • 13 Bankers

    The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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  • Darwinian Agriculture

    How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture

    by R. Ford Denison ...
    Harnessing evolution for more sustainable agricultureAs human populations grow and resources are depleted, agriculture will need to use land, water, and other resources more efficiently and without sacrificing long-term sustainability. Darwinian Agriculture presents an entirely new approach to these challenges, one that draws on the principles of evolution and natural selection.R. Ford Denison ... Read more

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  • Race for Profit

    How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Arbitrary Lines

    How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

    by M. Nolan Gray ...
    What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development?It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Pension Ponzi

    How Public Sector Unions are Bankrupting Canada's Health Care, Education and Your Retirement

    by Bill Tufts, Lee Fairbanks ...
    The vast majority of Canadians are blissfully unaware that every man, woman and child in Canada now owes a $35,000 share of government debt and must pay this back, with interest! Make no mistake, this debt will change our country and affect every single Canadian in the decades to come. You may think you have planned for your retirement and are safe, but the government must find a way to recover ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

    Edited by Diana H. Wall, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, Wim H. van der Putten, Karl Ritz, Hefin Jones ...
    This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    by Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

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  • Biorefinery in the Pulp and Paper Industry

    by Pratima Bajpai ...
    The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease. To remain viable, the traditional producers need to increase revenue by producing bioenergy and ... Read more

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  • Misunderstanding Financial Crises:Why We Don't See Them Coming

    Why We Don't See Them Coming

    by Gary B. Gorton ...
    Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the U.S. from 1934 to 2007. Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bioenergy Production by Anaerobic Digestion

    Using Agricultural Biomass and Organic Wastes

    Edited by Nicholas Korres, Padraig O'Kiely, John A.H. Benzie, Jonathan S. West ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Bioenergy
    Interest in anaerobic digestion (AD), the process of energy production through the production of biogas, has increased rapidly in recent years. Agricultural and other organic waste are important substrates that can be treated by AD.This book is one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential to turn agricultural crops or crop residues, animal and other ... Read more

    $68.99 USD