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The Improving State of the World.
Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Cato Institute,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demonstrates that economic growth, technological change and free trade helped to power a "cycle of progress" that in the last two centuries enabled unprecedented improvements in every objective measurement of human well-being. His analysis is accompanied by an extensive range of charts, historical data. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part A: Economic Development, Technological Change, and the Human Condition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Improving State of Humanity; 3. Has Globalization Widened the Gaps in Human Well-Being; 4. The Cycle of Progress: Factors Propelling Humanity's Progress; Part B: The Effects of Economic Development; 5. Competing Views Regarding Affluence, Technology, and the Environment; 6. Long-Term Environmental Trends; 7. Are Long-Term Trends Consistent with Environmental Transitions; 8. Factors Affecting Environmental Trends. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Economic development |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quality of life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Technological innovations |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human ecology. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Développement économique |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Qualité de la vie. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Innovations |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écologie humaine. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a human ecology. |2 aat | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Human ecology |2 fast | |
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