Against Leviathan [[electronic resource] ] : government power and a free society / / Robert Higgs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453812203321
• Autore: Higgs Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, Calif., : Independent Institute, c2004
• ISBN: 1-59813-089-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Collana: Independent studies in political economy
• Disciplina: 330.973
• Soggetti: Power (Social sciences) - United States; Electronic books.; United States Economic policy; United States Politics and government 20th century; United States Politics and government 2001-2009
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Articles chiefly published previously beginning in 1981.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Introduction ; Part I - Welfare Statism; Chapter 1: Is More Economic Equality Better? ; Chapter 2: The Welfare State: Promising Protection in an Age of Anxiety ; Chapter 3: Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution ; Part II - Our Glorious Leaders; Chapter 4: The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal Chapter 5: Public Choice and Political Leadership ; Chapter 6: Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the Rest of them; Chapter 7: What Professor Stiglitz Learned in Washington ; Chapter 8: Great Presidents? ; Part III - Despotism, Soft and Hard; Chapter 9: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Billy Club is not a Substitute for Eyeglasses Chapter 10: Regulatory Harmonization: A Sweet-Sounding, Dangerous Development ; Chapter 11: Puritanism, Paternalism, and Power ; Chapter 12: We're all Sick, and Government must Heal us; Chapter 18: Death and Taxes Chapter 19: A Carnival of Taxation ; Chapter 20: ; Unmitigated Mercantilism ; Chapter 21: Results of a Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 22: Results of Another Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 23: Pity the Poor Japanese; Part V - The Political Economy of Crisis
• Sommario/riassunto: <DIV>An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base their economic management and their responses to an ongoing stream of crises. Among the topics discussed are domestic economic busts, foreign wars, welfare programs such as social security, the arts of political leadership, the intrusive efforts of governments to protect people from themselves, and

Driving climate change [[electronic resource] ] : cutting carbon from transportation / / edited by Daniel Sperling and James S. Cannon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458638303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, c2007
• ISBN: 1-280-63657-2; 9786610636570; 0-08-046468-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SperlingDaniel; CannonJames Spencer <1949->
• Disciplina: 363.73/7
• Soggetti: Global warming - Prevention; Transportation - Environmental aspects; Motor vehicles - Fuel consumption; Climatic changes; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction and overview / Dan Sperling and James S. Cannon -- Peaking of world oil production and its mitigation / Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling -- Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy / Duncan Eggar -- Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet / Anup P. Bandivadekar and John B. Heywood -- Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States / John DeCicco, Freda Fung and Feng An -- Reducing vehicle emissions through cap-and-trade schemes / John German -- North American feebate analysis model / Alexandre Dumas, David L. Greene and André Bourbeau -- Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off? / Gary Toth -- International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from namsenger vehicles / Feng An -- Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility / Walter Hook -- What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Caribbean / Deborah Bleviss -- From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology and climate science in the United States / David M. Reiner -- Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy / Kenneth S. Kurani, Thomas S. Turrentine and Reid R. Heffner -- Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy / David L. Bodde -- Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change / David Burwell and Daniel Sperling.
• Sommario/riassunto: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the impact of those changes on nature and human civilization. This book will provide professionals and students alike with the latest information regarding greenhouse emissions while presenting the most up-to-date techniques for reducing these emissions. It will investigate three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: 1) reducing motorized travel, 2) shifting t