The Economics Of Arrival

Author : Trebeck, Katherine,Williams, Jeremy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447337843

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The Economics of Arrival by Trebeck, Katherine,Williams, Jeremy Pdf

What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled prosperity: we have ‘arrived’. More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. It’s high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet? In fact, Trebeck and Williams claim in this ground-breaking book, the challenge is now to make ourselves at home with this wealth, to ensure, in the interests of equality, that everyone is included. They explore the possibility of ‘Arrival’, urging us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all.

Author : Katherine Trebeck,Jeremy Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1447337867

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The Economics of Arrival by Katherine Trebeck,Jeremy Williams Pdf

Author : Trebeck, Katherine,Williams, Jeremy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447337263

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The Economics of Arrival by Trebeck, Katherine,Williams, Jeremy Pdf

What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled prosperity: we have ‘arrived’. More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. It’s high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet? In fact, Trebeck and Williams claim in this ground-breaking book, the challenge is now to make ourselves at home with this wealth, to ensure, in the interests of equality, that everyone is included. They explore the possibility of ‘Arrival’, urging us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all.

Author : Lorenzo Fioramonti
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770105188

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Wellbeing Economy by Lorenzo Fioramonti Pdf

Economic growth is a constant mantra of politicians, economists and the media. Few understand what it is, but they love and follow it blindly. The reality is that since the global financial crisis, growth has vanished in the more industrialised economies and in the so-called developing countries. Politicians may be panicking, but is this really a bad thing? Using real-life examples and innovative research, acclaimed political economist Lorenzo Fioramonti lays bare society’s perverse obsession with economic growth by showing its many flaws, paradoxes and inconsistencies. He argues that the pursuit of growth often results in more losses than gains and in damage, inequalities and conflicts. By breaking free from the growth mantra, we can build a better society that puts the wellbeing of all at its centre. A wellbeing economy would have tremendous impact on everything we do, boosting small businesses and empowering citizens as the collective leaders of tomorrow. Wellbeing Economy is a manifesto for radical change in South Africa and beyond.

Author : Doug Saunders
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307396907

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Arrival City by Doug Saunders Pdf

From one of Canada's leading journalists comes a major book about how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas on the margins is reshaping our world. These transitional spaces are where the next great economic and cultural boom will be born, or where the great explosion of violence will occur. The difference depends on our ability to notice. The twenty-first century is going to be remembered for the great, and final, shift of human populations out of rural, agricultural life into cities. The movement engages an unprecedented number of people, perhaps a third of the world's population, and will affect almost everyone in tangible ways. The last human movement of this size and scope, and the changes it will bring to family life, from large agrarian families to small urban ones, will put an end to the major theme of human history: continuous population growth. Arrival City offers a detailed tour of the key places of the "final migration" and explores the possibilities and pitfalls inherent in the developing new world order. From villages in China, India, Bangladesh and Poland to the international cities of the world, Doug Saunders portrays a diverse group of people as they struggle to make the transition, and in telling the story of their journeys — and the history of their often multi-generational families enmeshed in the struggle of transition — gives an often surprising sense of what factors aid in the creation of a stable, productive community.

Author : Robert Halvorsen,David F. Layton
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857937568

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Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources by Robert Halvorsen,David F. Layton Pdf

The topics discussed in the Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources are essential for those looking to understand how best to use and conserve the resources that form the foundation for human well-being. These include nonrenewable resources, mod

Author : Riaz Shareef,Suhejla Hoti,Michael McAleer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857937131

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The Economics of Small Island Tourism by Riaz Shareef,Suhejla Hoti,Michael McAleer Pdf

This study forms an entirely new area of research on Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). It addresses the importance of uncertainty in monthly international tourist arrivals and country risk indicators to the macroeconomy. Conditional volatilities are estimated for international tourist arrivals, and an economic interpretation from the estimated results is provided. In achieving these two objectives, this work presents an extensive assessment of the important characteristics and the impact of tourism in SITEs in relation to their gross domestic product, balance of payments, employment and foreign direct investment, among other factors. This book is unique in giving emphasis to macroeconomic implications rather than an industry focus. The Economics of Small Island Tourism will appeal to academics at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels involved in environmental and tourism management as well as tourism economics.

Author : Barry Chiswick,Paul W. Miller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444537652

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Handbook of the Economics of International Migration by Barry Chiswick,Paul W. Miller Pdf

The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others. Covers a range of topics from labor market outcomes and fiscal consequences to the effects of international migration on the level and distribution of income – and everything in between. Encompasses a wide range of topics related to migration and is multidisciplinary in some aspects, which is crucial on the topic of migration Appeals to a large community of scholars interested in this topic and for whom no overviews or summaries exist

Author : Shari Lapeña
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781897142547

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Happiness Economics by Shari Lapeña Pdf

"Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist ... When Will meets his muse, the enigmatic and athletic Lily White, he becomes inspired not only to write poetry, but to take guerrilla action in support of poets everywhere"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101502259

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The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen Pdf

Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the first. Where does this madness come from? As Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe. That's it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why our politics is crazy. In The Great Stagnation, Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.

Author : Kenneth A. Small,Erik T. Verhoef
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134495719

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The Economics of Urban Transportation by Kenneth A. Small,Erik T. Verhoef Pdf

This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small’s seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies. Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US. Small and Verhoef cover all basic topics needed for any application of economics to transportation: forecasting the demand for transportation services under alternative policies measuring all the costs including those incurred by users setting prices under practical constraints choosing and evaluating investments in basic facilities designing ways in which the private and public sectors interact to provide services. This book will be of great interest to students with basic calculus and some knowledge of economic theory who are engaged with transportation economics, planning and, or engineering, travel demand analysis, and many related fields. It will also be essential reading for researchers in any aspect of urban transportation.

Author : Guido Candela,Paolo Figini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642208737

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The Economics of Tourism Destinations by Guido Candela,Paolo Figini Pdf

The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the field still lacks a firm research methodology. This book approaches tourism economics as an applied field of study in which tourism markets are represented as imperfect markets, with asymmetric and incomplete information among agents, bounded rationality, and with a strong presence of externalities and public goods. The economic issues studied in the book are approached both intuitively, largely using examples and case studies, and formally, with mathematical formalizations in text boxes.

Author : Jeremy Williams
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781785787768

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Climate Change Is Racist by Jeremy Williams Pdf

** LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE LONGLIST 2022 ** 'Really packs a punch' Aja Barber, author of Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism 'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist 'Accessible. Poignant. Challenging.' Nnimmo Bassey, environmentalist and author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or institutional biases. Climate change doesn't work that way. It is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White countries, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour. The climate crisis reflects and reinforces racial injustices. In this eye-opening book, writer and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short, urgent journey across the globe - from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia - to understand how White privilege and climate change overlap. We'll look at the environmental facts, hear the experiences of the people most affected on our planet and learn from the activists leading the change. It's time for each of us to find our place in the global struggle for justice.

Author : Daniel Albalate,Germa Bel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739171240

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The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail by Daniel Albalate,Germa Bel Pdf

The technological revolution linked to high speed rail (HSR) has been accompanied by myths and claims about its contribution to society and the economy. Although HSR is unquestionably a technological advance that has become a symbol of modernity, this review and analysis of the international experiences shows that the conditions necessary to have a positive impact, economically, socially and environmentally, are enormously restrictive. The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad, by Daniel Albalate and Germà Bel, introduces the main questions policy makers and scholars should examine when considering and studying HSR implementation, with particular emphasis on the US’s recent interest in this technology and possible application in California. Albalate and Bel then review the experiences of the most significant implementations of HSR around the globe. This in-depth international perspective includes chapters on the pioneers of HSR (Japan and France), the European followers (Germany, Spain and Italy), as well as Asian experiences in China, Taiwan, and Korea. Albalate and Bel’s study provides a clear distinction between the myths and realities associated with this transportation innovation. Among the most relevant findings, this study highlights how HSR projects that do not satisfy highly restrictive conditions—on mobility patterns, measured costs, and economically rational designs—that make it desirable have been the source of huge financial debacles and the economic failure of HSR in most cases, which result in unfortunate consequences for taxpayers. The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail is a rigorous investigation of the economic and political challenges and ramifications of implementing new public transportation technology.

Author : Stanley Fischer,Dani Rodrik,Elias H. Tuma
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262061538

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The Economics of Middle East Peace by Stanley Fischer,Dani Rodrik,Elias H. Tuma Pdf

This landmark collection of essays addresses the question: Given peace in the MiddleEast, then what? Focusing on the countries most immediately affected by the Arab-Israeli conflict,economists representing Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories offer differingperspectives on potential opportunities and difficulties and on the actions that would be requiredto redirect, rejuvenate, and sustain the economies of the region.The book opens with case studies ofEgypt, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It then examines overallregional issues such as the economic consequences of peace and the economic reforms needed tomaximize peace dividends. Essays in the last part focus on the transition to peace and the futureeconomic development of the Palestinian, Israeli, Jordanian, and other regional economiesTopicsaddressed include the relation of defense spending to the economy, the implications of a peace fortrade across borders, the benefits of economic cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians, andthe role of foreign aid in economic reconstruction in the Middle East.Stanley Fischer is Professorof Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dani Rodrik is Associate Professor ofPublic Policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. Elias Tuma is Professor of Economics at theUniversity of California, Davis.