Probably no other dimension of human experience has been pondered, discussed, debated, analyzed, and dreamed about more than the nature of true love. Love is everywhere -- in songs and in books, on televisions and on movie screens.
Discounting and Intergenerational Equity by Paul R. Portney, ISBN 0915707896
In policymaking, economists may use discount rates to compare present with future costs and benefits. In this landmark book, a number of the world's foremost economists reconsider the appropriate use of discounting for the future. This work should go a long way toward refining the economic dimensions of public policy, particularly in environmental matters. As with the policies it discusses, the impact of the book should be felt tomorrow as well as today.
Discounting and Intergenerational Equity by Paul R. Portney, ISBN 0915707896
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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets,...
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
Brit Volume 1: Old Soldier
Meet the government's last line of defense when it comes to the really messy parts of keeping the world safe... Brit. When super-powered menaces threaten our home soil, send in Brit, a one man killing machine. Indestructible, unstoppable and eligible for a senior citizen's discount.
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