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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America.

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Energy Economics: Science, Policy, and Economic Applications explains various energy systems from an economics perspective. Specifically, the author uses the tools of economics to analyze the development of modern energy systems, the worlds reliance on fossil fuels, and the components of a transition to cleaner energy resources.

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Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment.

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The second of two works resulting from the author's extensive study of energy and the world economy, this book examines the international macroeconomic aspects of energy adjustment.

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Examining the history of foreign investment in the US since 1920, this work shows how America changed from a debtor nation to a supplier of capital to the rest of the world, and then details the structural shifts to this creditor position after the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in 1972.

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Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development delves into the current thinking on local entrepreneurship development programs and evaluates ways in which practitioners can implement successful entrepreneurship practices. The discussion begins with a broad overview of the cha...

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Evaluates the need for international policy action in natural resource and environmental management. Using numerous examples, Richard N. Cooper illustrates the issues that cause conflict in environment and resources policies. Cooper divides the use of natural resources into three categories and examines the rationale for international action in each.

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Corporations must decide how much to invest in the natural capital (e.g.

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Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

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Describes why the practice of benefit-cost analysis in environmental settings is heavily biased against the environment. This book provides environmentalists with the tools necessary to show policy-makers that pursuing many policies with apparent costs greater than benefits are, in fact, welfare-enhancing.

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Examines ways that environmental sustainability has been - and might be - incorporated into existing theories of economic development.

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Examines ways that environmental sustainability has been - and might be - incorporated into existing theories of economic development.

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The explanatory theories include the stage-based theories of Marx, Schumpeter, and Rostow, and factor-based theories, including capital-based, human-capital-based, and technology-based theories.

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Essays dealing with economics in the public sector written for the professional, the student and the layman.

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Professor Morgenstern's deep interests in economic time series and problems of measurement are represented by path-breaking articles devoted to the application of modern statistical analysis to temporal economic data. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available prev

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Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today.

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Debating the promises and limits of the "new economic history," seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new methodological challenge to the field of economic history and a

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This is a collection of Ben Bernanke's essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating and lasted so long. The essays also show that while the it was an unparalleled disaster on a universal scale, some economies pulled up faster than others, and some made an opportunity out of a disaster.

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Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985) remarked that Viner was "quite simply the greatest historian of economic thought that ever l