Environmental Tax Reform and the Labour Market: The Double Dividend in Different Labour Market Regimes

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During the past decade the issue of a general welfare double dividend (an improvement in environmental quality combined with a positive welfare effect) triggered by a tax shift from labor to energy resources has been extensively debated. In this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labor to energy, and measures the impact on theoretical and empirical models of the European labor market.

A common theoretical framework is devised to analyze the impact of environmental tax reform. Various `labor market regimes' (competitive labor markets, union wage bargaining and efficiency wages) are derived and taken as the starting point for different specifications of the labor market. The theoretical outcomes of tax shifts in these different labor market regimes are then analyzed and compared. The results reveal that whereas an econometric-based multi-sectoral model yields significant double dividend effects, a general equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic consequences of environmental tax reform such as a shift in demand from energy to non-energy goods.

This book provides a concise appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect. It utilizes extensive empirical evidence and reveals the sensitivity of the various theoretical concepts surrounding the debate. This book will be of interest and relevance to academics in the fields of environmental economics, labor theory and fiscal studies.

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Hanaukyo Maid Team Volume 2: Blue Silent Bell (Hanaukyo Maid Team)
Morishige
Manufacturer: Studio Ironcat
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An Unexpected Rival (Hanaukyo Maid Team)

ASIN: 1929090722

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From Atari to oat bran, glasnost to Boy George, this comprehensive, alphabetized, and witty guide takes readers through the "big '80s"-a concise, cross-referenced catalogue of historical events, artistic achievements, technological developments, cultural triumphs and of course, Smurfberry Crunch. Now, as '70s nostalgia peaks, the next (and possibly even sillier) decade takes the spotlight as a new generation embraces its embarrassing past. Includes cultural high points such as: * "Baby on Board" * "Dallas" * Eurythmics * Flashdance * Inspector Gadget * "Just Say No" * "Kate & Allie" * Live Aid * McDLT * Pac-Man * Rainforests * Teddy Ruxpin * Underoos * Valley Girls * Xanadu * and much, too much more!

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Good book for an 80's fan.......2001-06-26

In many ways my husband and I miss the 80's. We liked the music, the fashion and the way people were concerned with simple things like hygiene and attractive clothing. This book took us back to those happy carefree teenage years when things were good and we were nearly completely free of responsibility!! As we went through this book we had many good laughs and had fun remembering things long forgotten! I recommend this book if you liked the 80's and I recommend reading it with at least one other person who enjoyed that era! Fun book!

Jam packed with mirthful whimsy!.......2000-05-02

This book was as much fun as a barrel of smurfs...required reading for those of us with a Dukes of Hazard lunch box and a Battlestar Galactica sleeping bag in the closet...awaken the Chachi within!

This is the Bible for any true child of the Eighties........1999-11-18

If you ignore the book's ugly-as-sin cover artwork and delve into this maniacal volume of absolutely useless yet totally vital pop cultural information, you will be proud to say: "I am a member of the Chachi Generation." Buy it and love it.

totally tubular.......1999-11-17

This book was better than 'Cats' - great trip down memory lane for any Gen X'er - makes the 80s seem rich with culture.

A must own for Generation X'ers.......1999-11-04

The book is essestial for anyone who came of age in the 1980's. Though many consider it a forgettable decade, for those of us who grew up during those years, it's great to have a refresher course on things that we considered to be so important at the time. And where else are you going to find an entry on the brilliant, yet short lived series, "Manimal?"

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Immensely disappointing.......1999-08-17

An angry Dotson's adds nothing but his own value judgments on male beauty (or the male physique) in today's culture. There is very little objectivity in the book as Dotson bashes everything from advertising to working out.

A long overdue book!.......1999-04-10

Dotson takes an insightful look at how our culture dictates how men should view themselves and the extreme lengths that we go to in order to achieve an unrealistic ideal. It's about time someone explored a concept once so closely associated with women. Like a surgeon, Dotson dissects this very timely subject and exposes how men can be just as gullible as women when it comes to self-image.

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This is an overview of classical artificial intelligence (AI) programming via actual implementation of landmark systems (case studies). For the student interested in AI, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming is an invaluable history lesson. Even the programmer who is relatively uninterested in AI will find value in the book's basic introduction to Lisp and case studies written in Lisp. But perhaps the book's best feature is its information on efficiency considerations in Lisp. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming is worth purchasing for these discussions alone, which provide a wealth of useful guidelines for optimizing your code.

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Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical performance issues involved in writing real working programs of significant size. Chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency are included, along with a discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

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One of the Best.......2006-04-13

"Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" is one of the best books of computer science that I have ever read. I put it up there in the pantheon with "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". I have found more useful and mind expanding material in these case studies than I have in many other books on computer science. I highly recommend this book to anyone, even if they have never used Lisp.

Norvig's Corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Law of Programming.......2005-04-23

This book has been called "The best book on programming ever written". I'd have to agree--it is certainly the best that I've ever read.

William Zinsser said, "The essence of writing is rewriting" and the same can be said for writing computer programs. Norvig's book presents this process--how the limitations of a program are overcome by revision and rewriting. What sets Norvig apart as a writer is that, amazingly enough, he can write about debugging (the most dreaded part of computer programming) and make it a fascinating read!

Lisp has been getting a higher profile lately because of essayists like Paul Graham and Philip Greenspun; in particular, Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming which states: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." So, should this book be read as an exhortation to return to Lisp as the preferred programming language?

Paradoxically, I think not. One third of the way through the book, Norvig shows us how to implement Prolog in Lisp. From then on out, most of the AI techniques he presents either directly use Prolog instead of Lisp (such as his excellent discussion of natural language processing using Prolog) or use Prolog as a base to build on (such as his discussions on knowledge representation).

From this we can abstract what I'd like to call Norvig's Corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Law of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated LISP program is going to contain a slow implementation of half of Prolog". I'm leaving out the "ad hoc", "bug-ridden" part of Greenspuns's law, because Norvig's programs are neither. But it is quite remarkable the degree to which, once having absorbed Prolog, Norvig uses Prolog as the basis for further development, rather than Lisp.

Is this a book about Prolog then? Again, no. What is the take-away message? It is this: as our world becomes more and more complex, and as the problems which programmers are facing become more and more complex, we have to program at a higher and higher level.

Norvig does not stop at just embedding Prolog in Lisp. He also shows us how to embed scheme as well. Excellent discussion on the mysterious call/cc function and on continuations.

In a capsule review, it is impossible to really give an overview of a 1,000 page book like this one. But the scope and heft of the volume really needs to be commented on: the programs presented in this book are like basis vectors, the totality of which nearly span the space of programming itself. In no way should this be considered "just an AI book" or "just a LISP book". This book transcends language, time, and subject matter. It is a programmer's book for the ages.

An Excellent Reference on WHY to write good Lisp.......2001-06-21

This book is equally excellent regardless of whether you wish to regard it as:

a) A historical study of Artificial Intelligence, with USABLE examples of code, or

b) A book presenting techniques for programming in Common Lisp.

As a reference about Common Lisp, it is certainly lacking, but this is no great problem when both the Common Lisp HyperSpec and Steele's book are readily available in electronic form. It provides something more important: SIGNIFICANT examples, and significant discussions on WHY you would use various Lisp idioms, and, fairly often, discussions on HOW pieces of Common Lisp are likely to be implemented. Its discussion of an implementation of the LOOP macro, for instance, provides a very different point of view than the "references" to LOOP. (Contrast too with Graham's books, which largely deprecate the use of LOOP.)

From an AI perspective, it is also very good, providing WORKING SAMPLES for a whole lot of the historically significant AI problems, including Search, PLANNER, symbolic computation, and the likes.

It would be interesting to see parallel works from the following sorts of perspectives:

- The same sorts of AI problems solved using functional languages (e.g. - ML, Haskell), to allow contrasting the use of those more modern languages. Being more "purely functional" has merits; such languages commonly lack macros, which is something of a disadvantage.

- The use of CL to grapple with some other sorts of applications, notably random access to data [e.g. - databases] and rendition of output in HTML/SGML/XML [e.g. - web server].

Not advanced, but good and vast.......2001-04-18

The strength of this book is its combination of breadth and completeness: there is working code (well beyond the toy stage) of a large number of different AI systems that cover a large subset of what is commonly considered AI.

The programming itself is rather basic, and very straightforward. In many places an advanced programmer would have avoided a global variable, unified code through the use of higher-order functions, had functions communicate through a shared local environment, created a lazy list, you name it.

The author avoids most of these more advanced approaches in order to present the ideas behind the approaches without being sidetracked into programming technique issues, and that is the correct choice for this book. Even as it is, there is already the duplicity of teaching Common Lisp and teaching AI programming.

That being said, the code in general is not bad at all, even though I wouldn't want my students to learn CL programming from it. The author has simply bent down to the level of, a good C programmer, and worked from there. His main intention being to teach AI programming approaches, he has spent much less time to raise the programming level of his audience.

Knowing the author's level of Lisp programming, I can't wait to see a book by his hand on how to use abstraction as an organising principle in programming.

Excellent study of both AI and Common Lisp.......1998-06-03

I have no background in computer science or AI, but found myself needing to use Lisp for various creative and artistic purposes. I've spent a lot of money on books relating to Common Lisp, but I wish I had just gotten this one and Touretzky's "Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation." The particular strengths of this book are its detailed discussion of advanced topics, especially optimization, and the practical overview of current and historical AI topics through programming examples. Very clearly written.

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The more things change the more they stay the same.

Comprehensive Review of a Subject Rarely Considered

Thoughful, insightful, and compelling

A Monument to Good Intentions : The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary 1804 1995
Wallace Shugg , and Wallace C. Shugg
Manufacturer: Maryland Historical Society
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ASIN: 0938420674
Release Date: 2005-03-22

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The oldest continuously operating penitentiary in the Western World comes to life in this extraordinary narrative based on prison records, investigative reports, and personal interviews.

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The more things change the more they stay the same........2001-08-16

Read all the editorial reviews on this book. They are comprehensive and a fine introduction. The book (paperback) is loaded with black-and-white drawings, maps and photographs.

To begin: 1804 was a very lousy year. It was decided by the politicians to export criminals and miscreants way far away outside (then) city limits. The first thing they did was set up buildings. The idea was to break even financially with inmate labor producing goods for sale. Oh, yeah, reform - that, too.

"Colored" prisoners were sold south if they came back a second time. There was no parole and there was no good time. One thing this book is invaluable for is the development of the classification system. (At the beginning, it was criminal, juvenile and insane.) Another is the never-ending debate as to dormitory and single- and double-cell housing. Another is the frenzy to build additional structures until space and budget ran out or was disapproved.

The author relied most exclusively on the transcripts of investigations so some of the day-to-day torture, forced labor, mutilations, whipping with cat-o-nine tails, and bed bugs so severe as to bloody mattresses sometimes shared by five.

The author reveals that three years after a particularly corrupt and sadistic warden (Weyland), a Bureau of Prisons was formed in 1916. This was the precursor of the Division of Correction which eventually grew to comprehend the cabinet-level Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Thereafter, the book loses strength because what was going on were building programs elsewhere in the state, such as Hagerstown (e.g., the "old jail" - MCIH). At this point, the author is relying on newspaper clippings and interviews with people including "old-guard" people that really didn't know about the really olden days. There are some famous escapes, comments on integration over the years, expansion to the "Supermax" across the street, etc., but the changing role of the warden is not made clear.

For personal reasons, I am not going to say any much more at this time.

Comprehensive Review of a Subject Rarely Considered.......2000-08-12

Having grown up as the daughter of a warden, I know first-hand how difficult it is to convey to an "outsider" how complex prison life, and Prison management can be. Mr. Shugg goes to great lengths to research and understand his topic. The readability of this book is to testimony to his great success. My father, who was interviewed for this book, has enjoyed reading it immensely. He has highly recommended it to all. It brought back many memories. He started as a guard and ended his long career as warden of the Maryland Pen. He "walked the walk" and Mr. Shugg is allowing his readers to do the same.

Thoughful, insightful, and compelling.......2000-08-09

This book gives an overview of the Maryland Penitentiary System over the past two hundred or so years. A fascinating look at some of the pivotal characters of Maryland's storied past within the penal system. RIVETING!

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Well-written History Textbook

The World in the Twentieth Century: From Empires to Nations
Daniel R. Brower
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0130959170

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Designed as a comprehensive, chronological introduction to world history in the 20th century, this book presents the major political and economic changes that have reshaped global relations, and focuses on the forces leading to the collapse of empires and the resulting rise of nationalism throughout the world. It develops discussions around the central argument that the single most profound global transformation in human relations during the 20th century has been the demise of all remaining empires and the emergence—in their place—of nation-states. Chapter topics organize the events of the 20th century under one principal theme—“from empires to nations”—introduced throughout the twelve chapters. Key coverage includes the latest historical studies of the Japanese Empire, the great religious communities in South Asia, an analysis of the rise and fall of communism in Europe and Asia, and the role of the Soviet Union in the 20th century. For anyone interested in World History—and placing it in the context of life today.

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Well-written History Textbook.......2000-09-28

I had to buy this textbook for a first year University History course. I have always had a passion for world history, and as soon as I picked up this book, I had a quick read-through. As I had guessed, I couldn't put the book down! World history had again succeeded at drawing me in again! As the title indicates, this book is about the world in the 20th century, and it focuses in on colonies as they emerge as nation-states in the post-war world. Europe's Asian colonies, the African colonies, and Europe's great Empires are all discussed in great detail. The newly updated 4th edition sheds light on the European Union, the war in Yugoslavia, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. I higly recommend this book for any history enthusiasts out there - it makes for a very interesting read.

The World in the Twentieth-Century: From Empires to Nations Fourth Edition

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The World in the Twentieth-Century: From Empires to Nations Fourth Edition
Daniel R. Brower
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J4UGQK

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