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Martin Wolf Wagner
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Author : Martin Wolf Wagner
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Martin Wolf Wagner written by Martin Wolf Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Climate Shock
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Author : Gernot Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Climate Shock written by Gernot Wagner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.
How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future—why not our planet? In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance—as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale. With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with—and what could happen if we don't do so—tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.
But Will The Planet Notice
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Author : Gernot Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2011-09-27
But Will The Planet Notice written by Gernot Wagner and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Business & Economics categories.
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics. The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the planet, is now in the hands of the dismal science. Fortunately, we've been there before. Economists helped crack the acid rain problem in the 1990's (admittedly with a strong assist from a phalanx of lawyers and activists). Economists have helped get lead out of our gas, and they can explain why lobsters haven't disappeared off the coast of New England but tuna is on the verge of extinction. More disquietingly, they can take the lessons of the financial crisis and model with greater accuracy than anyone else the likelihood of environmental catastrophe, and they can help save us from global warming, if only we let them.
Accounting Discretion Of Banks During A Financial Crisis
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Author : Mr.Luc Laeven
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Accounting Discretion Of Banks During A Financial Crisis written by Mr.Luc Laeven and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper shows that banks use accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. Banks' balance sheets overvalue real estate-related assets compared to the market value of these assets, especially during the U.S. mortgage crisis. Share prices of banks with large exposure to mortgage-backed securities also react favorably to recent changes in accounting rules that relax fair-value accounting, and these banks provision less for bad loans. Furthermore, distressed banks use discretion in the classification of mortgage-backed securities to inflate their books. Our results indicate that banks' balance sheets offer a distorted view of the financial health of the banks.
A Market Based Measure Of Credit Quality And Banks Performance During The Subprime Crisis
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Author : Martin Knaup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Market Based Measure Of Credit Quality And Banks Performance During The Subprime Crisis written by Martin Knaup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Crisis Of Democratic Capitalism
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Author : Martin Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-02-02
The Crisis Of Democratic Capitalism written by Martin Wolf and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-02 with Political Science categories.
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wolf, one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites: they need each other if either is to thrive. Wolf's superb exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential foundation of our economic and political freedom.
Sound And Reason
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Author : Sven Hroar Klempe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-10
Sound And Reason written by Sven Hroar Klempe and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-10 with Social Science categories.
This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities. In speech, just one word is articulated at the time, whereas in music different pitches sound simultaneously. This conflict demonstrates that rationality must be regarded as relative, as rationality in music may create chaos in speech. Moreover, investigating the role of sound in synesthesia reveals that its aesthetic combinations are related to the human capacity to enjoy different types of harmonies in music. Drawing on new research regarding synesthesia as a more fundamental basis for human cognition, this book brings this a step further by introducing synesthesia as a general metacognitive process, hinting at the aesthetical origin of fundamental logical operations. Bringing together a number of cultural perspectives on music, language, and mathematics, this volume expertly illustrates that music reveals a fundamental system that deeply combines the sensorial and the intellectual human capacities.
The Future Of Capitalism
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Author : Paul Collier
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Future Of Capitalism written by Paul Collier and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Business & Economics categories.
From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts - economic, social and cultural - with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervour of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world's most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself - and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the 20th century.
Dynamics At Solid State Surfaces And Interfaces Volume 1
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Author : Uwe Bovensiepen
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-11-29
Dynamics At Solid State Surfaces And Interfaces Volume 1 written by Uwe Bovensiepen and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-29 with Science categories.
This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics of elementary processes at solid surfaces and interfaces, presenting the current status of photoinduced processes. Providing valuable introductory information for newcomers to this booming field of research, it investigates concepts and experiments, femtosecond and attosecond time-resolved methods, as well as frequency domain techniques. The whole is rounded off by a look at future developments.
Minutes
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Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. Ohio Conference
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Minutes written by Methodist Episcopal Church. Ohio Conference and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.