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  • Economics of Integrated Pest Management of Insects, The

    by Jeffrey Alwang, Zachary S. Brown, Adeney de Freitas Bueno, Peter C Ellsworth, Bruna Magda Favetti, George B Frisvold, Yara A. Halasa-Rappel, Erin W. Hodgson, Menale Kassie, John Mumford, Rangaswamy Muniappan, Steven E. Naranjo, Roderick Rejesus, Donald S. Shepherd, Michael S Jones, George Norton, Dominic Reisig ...
    Many biological studies on insect management do not consider economics or fundamental economic principles. This book brings together economists and entomologists to explain the principles, successes, and challenges of effective insect management. It highlights the importance of economic analyses for decision making and the feasibility of such approaches, and examines integrated pest management ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Economics of Agricultural Development

    World Food Systems and Resource Use

    by George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, William A. Masters ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems, progress made in many countries in recent years, and the implications of globalization for agriculture, poverty, and the environment.Topics covered in the book include:Means for utilizing ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Crop Improvement, Adoption and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Dr Thomas S. Walker, Jeffrey Alwang ...
    Following on from the CGIAR study by Evenson and Gollin (published by CABI in 2003), this volume provides up-to-date estimates of adoption outcomes and productivity impacts of crop variety improvement research in sub-Saharan Africa. The book reports on the results of the DIIVA Project that focussed on the varietal generation, adoption and impact for 20 food crops in 30 countries. It also compares ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

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    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
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  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

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  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

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  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Read more

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  • Stephen Roach on the Next Asia

    Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization

    by Stephen S. Roach ...
    As Morgan Stanley's chief Asia specialist, getting Asia right is Stephen Roach's personal obsession, and this in-depth compilation represents more than 70 of Roach's key research efforts not just on Asia, but also on how the region fits into the broad context of increasingly globalized financial markets. The book argues that the "Asia factor" is not a static concept, but rather one that is ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Prosperity

    Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

    by Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers ...
    "An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Read more

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  • SPIN-FREE ECONOMICS

    by Nariman Behravesh ...
    With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers—conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong—consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to ... Read more

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  • The End of Progress

    How Modern Economics Has Failed Us

    by Graeme Maxton ...
    A cold, hard look at how modern economics has failed us and why we need a new measure of progressModern economics has fallen short. It has widened the gap between rich and poor. It has not allocated the world's resources fairly. It has brought the West to the brink of financial ruin. It has placed short-term gain before long-term progress. And it has made us focus on the individual, not the ... Read more

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    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

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