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A review in USA Today called the book "a gut-wrenching wakeup call". [9] Thomas L. Friedman, in his op-ed column in The New York Times, called the book "insightful", agreeing with Romm's arguments in the book that the proposed "cap and trade" climate bill "is a step in the right direction toward reducing greenhouse gases and expanding our base of clean power technologies". [10]
Joseph J. Romm, an American physicist, climate change and energy security expert, in his 1993 book Defining national security: the nonmilitary aspects takes Ullman's 1983 definition of threat as a starting point and lists security from narcotic cartels, economic security, environmental security and energy security as the non-military elements of national security.
The Essay has been described as different from earlier writings on economic methodology in generating a range of tightly argued, radical implications from a simple definition, for example in admitting an aspect of behaviour (rather than a list of behaviours) but not limiting the subject-matter of economics, provided that the influence of ...
Romm explains that we already possess the technologies and know-how we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." [17] In 2008, the Greenpeace staff blog noted, "If you’re concerned about global warming and want to do something about it, Joseph Romm’s Hell and High Water ...is a fantastic primer. ... Romm clearly and concisely details the ...
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (1844) is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill. [1] Walras' law , a principle in general equilibrium theory named in honour of Léon Walras , [ 2 ] was first expressed by Mill in this treatise. [ 3 ]
An Indian company says an email informing staff that admitted to burnout had been fired was in reality part of an elaborate ruse to raise awareness over workplace stress.
Positive economics as such avoids economic value judgments. For example, a positive economic theory might describe how money supply growth affects inflation, but it does not provide any instruction on what policy ought to be followed. An example of a normative economic statement is as follows:
A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders — sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police — buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S ...