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Nature and the Marketplace

Author : G. M. Heal
Publisher : Shearwater Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Nature and the Marketplace written by G. M. Heal and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature's marketable services to “turn profits” at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The author: describes the infrastructure that natural systems provide, how we depend on it, and how we are affecting it explains the market mechanism and how it can lead to more efficient resource use looks at key economic activities -- such as ecotourism, bioprospecting, and carbon sequestration -- where market forces can provide incentives for conservation examines policy options other than the market, such as pollution credits and mitigation banking considers the issue of sustainability and equity between generations . Nature and the Marketplace presents an accessible introduction to the concept of ecosystem services and the economics of the environment. It offers a clear assessment of how market approaches can be used to protect the environment, and illustrates that with a number of cases in which the value of ecosystems has actually been captured by markets. The book offers a straightforward business economic analysis of conservation issues, eschewing romantic notions about ecosystem preservation in favor of real-world economic solutions. It will be an eye-opening work for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related fields.

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

Author : John McMillan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393323714
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets written by John McMillan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McMillan takes readers on a lively tour, from the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-communist economies.

Nature and the Marketplace

Author : G. M. Heal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nature and the Marketplace written by G. M. Heal and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature's marketable services to “turn profits” at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The author: describes the infrastructure that natural systems provide, how we depend on it, and how we are affecting it explains the market mechanism and how it can lead to more efficient resource use looks at key economic activities -- such as ecotourism, bioprospecting, and carbon sequestration -- where market forces can provide incentives for conservation examines policy options other than the market, such as pollution credits and mitigation banking considers the issue of sustainability and equity between generations . Nature and the Marketplace presents an accessible introduction to the concept of ecosystem services and the economics of the environment. It offers a clear assessment of how market approaches can be used to protect the environment, and illustrates that with a number of cases in which the value of ecosystems has actually been captured by markets. The book offers a straightforward business economic analysis of conservation issues, eschewing romantic notions about ecosystem preservation in favor of real-world economic solutions. It will be an eye-opening work for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related fields.

The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States

Author : Mattijs van Maasakkers
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086041
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States written by Mattijs van Maasakkers and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. With the help of in-depth case studies of three well-known attempts to create such markets––in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Ohio River basin and the Willamette River basin––the book explains why very few of these markets have actually succeeded even after close to two decades of much scholarly enthusiasm, significant federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and private businesses. Based on interviews, policy analysis and participatory observation, three features of markets for ecosystem services emerge as particularly problematic. First, the logic of displacement or the idea that particular elements of an ecosystem can be separated and traded across landscapes or watersheds runs counter to political interests, environmental beliefs and people's connections to specific places. The second problem is that of measurement. Quantification methods embed a range of often contentious assumptions and decisions about what counts when restoring ecosystems. The third problem is related to participation in environmental decision-making.

Introduction to Business

Author : Lawrence J. Gitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781998109319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Business written by Lawrence J. Gitman and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Marketplace

Author : Roger Friedland
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202303703
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Marketplace written by Roger Friedland and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society. Do individuals behave in markets as neoclassical theory assumes they do? Can other social institutions and processes--e.g., family formation and voting behavior--be analyzed with the same analytic tools we use to study markets? How is economic behavior shaped by institutions beyond the marketplace? Do markets themselves have a social and cultural structure which is not adequately explained by the formal tools of neoclassical analysis? In Beyond the Marketplace, economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists respond to these, and related, questions.

The New Map

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698191056
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The New Map written by Daniel Yergin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society “A master class on how the world works.” —NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. Out of this tumult is emerging a new map of energy and geopolitics. The “shale revolution” in oil and gas has transformed the American economy, ending the “era of shortage” but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging the global economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low-carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought. World politics is being upended, as a new cold war develops between the United States and China, and the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and on challenging American leadership, as China projects its power and influence in all directions. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran, ethnic and religious clashes, and restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price collapses--and by the very question of oil's future in the rest of this century. A master storyteller and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's new map. He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions in an era of rising political turbulence and points to the profound challenges that lie ahead.

The Face-to-Face Book

Author : Edward B. Keller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451640064
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Face-to-Face Book written by Edward B. Keller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's preeminent word-of-mouth marketing experts demonstrate how in-person social networking, not online marketing, is the secret to soaring revenues.

Politics in the Marketplace

Author : Katie Jarvis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190917113
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Politics in the Marketplace written by Katie Jarvis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : inventing citizenship in the revolutionary marketplace -- The Dames des Halles : economic lynchpins and the people personified -- Embodying sovereignty : the October days, political activism, and maternal work -- Occupying the marketplace : the battle over public space, particular interests, and the body politic -- Exacting change : money, market women, and the crumbling corporate world -- The cost of female citizenship : price controls and the gendering of democracy in revolutionary France -- Selling legitimacy : merchants, police, and the politics of popular subsistence -- Commercial licenses as political contracts : working out autonomy and economic citizenship -- Conclusion : fruits of labors : citizenship as social experience

Universities in the Marketplace

Author : Derek Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825490
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Universities in the Marketplace written by Derek Bok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities. While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.

The Shopper Economy: The New Way to Achieve Marketplace Success by Turning Behavior into Currency

Author : Liz Crawford
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071787186
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Shopper Economy: The New Way to Achieve Marketplace Success by Turning Behavior into Currency written by Liz Crawford and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET READY FOR THE AGE OF SHOPPER MARKETING Consumers today are armed with a wealth of content--price comparisons, reviews, and even online inventory data--and this is good news for marketers, because these tools empower consumers, making them into shoppers who are more willing than ever to interact with your brand . . . but for a price. The value of these shoppers' attention is soaring, and The Shopper Economy gives you the framework for capturing and monetizing this valuable commodity. Liz Crawford, a leading marketing innovator and consumer behavior analyst, gives a fast-paced and comprehensive look at how the unprecedented availability of information is a boon to brands, because it lets shoppers perform the labor of marketing when they watch and share ads, recommend products, and interact with brands and each other. Crawford presents interviews with marketers and shoppers, and case studies of how brands like 7-Eleven, Carnival Cruises, and Kia are using Shopkick, foursquare, and other platforms to stay ahead of accelerating changes in consumer empowerment by encouraging and rewarding everyday activities--entering a store, messaging, recommending, "Liking," playing, and more. From these examples you will learn how to Accurately measure and assess the value of shoppers' activities Translate the four key shopper behaviors--attention, participation, advocacy, and loyalty--into "Shopper Currency," real and virtual rewards that have measurable value to buyers and sellers Improve your business's ROI in shopper marketing by avoiding activity-foractivity's- sake and other common pitfalls Align your brand more seamlessly with your shoppers' own personal "brands" The Shopper Economy provides you with a high-level strategy that makes every shopper interaction a valuable transaction. It offers invaluable insights about today's rapidly evolving marketing landscape and proven solutions for how your brand can turn "path-to-purchase" models and consumer reward programs into lasting and profitable relationships with shoppers everywhere. PRAISE FOR THE SHOPPER ECONOMY "Every ten years, Consumer Marketing reinvents itself. If the 1990s were about Category Management, Shopper Insights has been the driver of the moment. Liz Crawford deconstructs the movement with precision." -- Paco Underhill, CEO Envirosell Inc., and author of Why We Buy “"A fascinating account of the present and future direction of marketing to shoppers. It is a brave new world that Liz Crawford writes about with real clarity. Her book is a bright door to the future." -- Herb Sorensen, PhD, Global Scientific Advisor, TNS Global Retail & Shopper Practice, and author of Inside the Mind of the Shopper "If you want to understand how to motivate shoppers and leverage the new shopper currency--behavior--you need to read this book. Liz Crawford details shopper behaviors, old and new, and provides a road map for brands that need to meet marketing and sales goals in an unbelievably complex shopping environment." -- Al McClain, CEO and founder, RetailWire.com "A refreshing and thought-provoking exploration of today's dynamic, highly digital consumer market place. I highly recommend [that] anyone who thinks they know something about shopper marketing or wants to think about it a bit more out of the box read this book and take Liz Crawford's advice to heart." -- Dan Flint, PhD, director, University of Tennessee Shopper Marketing Forum

Enterprising Nature

Author : Jessica Dempsey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118640551
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Enterprising Nature written by Jessica Dempsey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology! Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/ Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological-economic methodologies, computer models, business alliances, and regulatory conditions creating the conditions in which nature can be produced as enterprising Relates lively, firsthand accounts of global processes at work drawn from multi-site research in Nairobi, Kenya; London, England; and Nagoya, Japan Assesses the scientific, technical, geopolitical, economic, and ethical challenges found in attempts to ‘enterprise nature’ Investigates the implications of this ‘will to enterprise’ for environmental politics and policy

Pilgrimage in the Marketplace

Author : Ian Reader
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134625898
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage in the Marketplace written by Ian Reader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests and secular interest groups, create the very consumerist markets through which pilgrimages become established and successful – and through which the ‘sacred’ as a category can be sustained. By drawing on examples from several contexts, including Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Europe, and the Muslim world, author Ian Reader evaluates how pilgrimages may be invented, shaped, and promoted by various interest groups. In so doing he draws attention to the competitive nature of the pilgrimage market, revealing that there are rivalries, borrowed ideas, and alliances with commercial and civil agencies to promote pilgrimages. The importance of consumerism is demonstrated, both in terms of consumer goods/souvenirs and pilgrimage site selection, rather than the usual depictions of consumerism as tawdry disjunctions on the ‘sacred.’ As such this book reorients studies of pilgrimage by highlighting not just the pilgrims who so often dominate the literature, but also the various other interest groups and agencies without whom pilgrimage as a phenomenon would not exist.

Market-augmenting Government

Author : Omar Azfar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068173
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Market-augmenting Government written by Omar Azfar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how governments and markets are complementary rather than opposing forces

Moral Markets

Author : Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317255925
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Moral Markets written by Nico Stehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the term "moral markets" signals a further development in the social evolution of markets. Market theories still widely in use today emerged in a society that no longer exists. Consumers were hardly in evidence at all in early theories of the market. Today, growing affluence, greater knowledge, and high-speed communication among consumers builds into the marketplace notions of fairness, solidarity, environment, health, and political considerations imbued with a long-term perspective that can disrupt short-term pursuits of the best buy. Importantly, such social goals, individual apprehensions, and modes of consumer conduct become inscribed today in products and services offered in the marketplace, as well as in the rules and regulations that govern market relations. Stehr uses examples to illustrate these trends and build new theory fitting today's changing consumerism.

Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces

Author : Madhubalan Viswanathan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402057695
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces written by Madhubalan Viswanathan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking text that will inspire literacy educators, the authors here describe research on low-literate, poor buyers and sellers in subsistence marketplaces. They examine the consequent development of an innovative marketplace literacy educational program that enables consumer and entrepreneurial literacy. Then, they look at the implications of the research and the educational program for business, education, and a variety of disciplines and functions.

Life in the Market Ecosystem

Author : Stuart K. Hayashi
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739186698
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Market Ecosystem written by Stuart K. Hayashi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Market Ecosystem, the second book inthe Nature of Liberty trilogy, confronts evolutionary psychology head on. It describes the evolutionary psychologists’ theory of gene-culture co-evolution, which states that although customs and culture are not predetermined by anyone’s genetic makeup, one’s practice of a custom can influence the likelihood of that person having children and grandchildren. Therefore, according to the theory, customs count as evolutionary adaptations. Extending that theory further, as entire systems of political economy—capitalism, socialism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence—consist of multiple customs and institutions, it follows that an entire political-economic system can likewise be classified as an evolutionary adaptation. Considering that liberal-republican capitalism has, insofar as the system has been implemented, done more to reduce the mortality rate and secure human fertility than other models of societal structure, it stands to reason that liberal-republican capitalism is itself a beneficent evolutionary adaptation. Moreover, as essential tenets of Rand’s Objectivism—individualism, observation-based rationality, and peaceable self-interest—have been integral to the development of the capitalist ecosystem, important aspects of the Objectivism are worthwhile adaptations as well. This book shall uphold that position, as well as combat critiques by evolutionary psychologists and environmentalists who denounce capitalism as self-destructive. Instead, capitalism is the most sustainable and fairest political model. This book argues that of all the philosophies, Objectivism is the one that is most fit for humanity.