Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy
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    Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy
    David Vogel
    Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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    Book Description

    Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this pioneering work, David Vogel integrates environmental, consumer, and trade policy, and explicitly challenges the conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements to promote free trade invariably undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. Vogel demonstrates that liberal trade policies often produce precisely the opposite effect: that of strengthening regulatory standards.

    The most comprehensive account of trade and regulation on a global scale, this book analyzes the regulatory dimensions of all major international and regional trade agreements and treaties, including GATT, NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States, and the treaties that created the European Community and Union. He explores in depth some of the most important trade and regulatory conflicts, including the GATT tuna-dolphin dispute, the EC's beef hormone ban, the Danish bottle case, and the debate in the United States over the regulatory implications of both NAFTA and GATT.

    This timely book unravels the increasingly important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards, paying particular attention to the politics that underlie trade and regulatory linkages. Trading Up is essential reading for the business community, policymakers, environmentalists, consumer interest groups, political scientists, lawyers, and economists.

    Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
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      Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
      Shannon K. Mitchell
      Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association
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      ASIN: B00096LZ1I
      Release Date: 2005-07-28

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      This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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      Title: Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy. (book reviews)
      Author: Shannon K. Mitchell
      Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
      Date: July 1, 1996
      Publisher: Southern Economic Association
      Volume: v63 Issue: n1 Page: p271(2)

      Article Type: Book Review

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          James L. Gould , and Grant F. Gould
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          I've been using this book to teach an introductory course for college sophomores in environmental science and I think it's great. The language is simple and uses examples from human nature and everyday life in the early chapters, and the chapter organization and layout are very conceptually intuitive. I highly recommend this book for statistical neophytes in the natural and social sciences.

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          1 out of 5 stars Simply the worst.......2003-01-23

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          I wouldn't recommend this to Biology student who doesn't have any strong background in Statistics. And if you have already had a strong background in Statistics, you don't need this book for it is too shallow.
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              FREDERICK HARRISON
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              • After you read Angell's "A Pitcher's Story" -- read this!
              Aces : The Last Season on the Mound with the Oakland A's Big Three: Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito
              Mychael Urban
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              "Written with great color, style, humor, and grace, takes readers on a captivating ride. And while Hudson, Mulder, and Zito represented a uniquely entertaining era of A's baseball, the tale of their dramatic final season together is something baseball fan will no doubt enjoy."
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              "Mychael Urban's book is a fabulous read. He brings you behind-the-scenes with their private conversations and thoughts on the most famous pitching trio since Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. Mychael had a unique relationship with Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito, earning their trust so they were comfortable enough to reveal intimate details of their personal lives. You learn about their hopes, their fears, their ideas, and just what makes them tick. You'll know everything from Barry Zito's parents to Mark Mulder's golf game to Tim Hudson's family life. This is hardly just a baseball book. It's about life, and the tremendous burden each pitcher carried while trying to lead the Oakland A's to the playoffs. I absolutely loved it."
              —Bob Nightengale, Senior Writer/Columnist, USA Today Sports Weekly

              "If you got any closer to Oakland's Big Three of Hudson, Mulder, and Zito than Mychael Urban takes you in this compelling read, you'd be standing in the middle of the Athletics' clubhouse. And I can assure you: Mychael's book smells much better. From the southern fried heat of Tim Hudson to Mark Mulder's cool aloofness to Barry Zito's cerebral wanderings, Urban captures the engine of Oakland's Little Engine That Could of a team with grace and aplomb."
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              An inside look at three of baseball's best pitchers through the course of the 2004 season

              The Oakland A's-the subject of last year's bestselling Moneyball by Michael Lewis-are home to three of baseball's top pitchers. Written by a veteran Bay Area sportswriter with the complete cooperation of all three pitchers, Aces explores the art of pitching by taking readers inside the pitchers' very different minds during critical games and revealing what really goes on in the dugout, at the clubhouse, and off the field.

              Mychael Urban (Livermore, CA) is a national writer for MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, and has covered the A's since 2001. He talks about baseball regularly on FOXSports TV, ESPN Radio, and MLB.com Radio. "

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              4 out of 5 stars The Big Three's last hurrah.......2006-03-13

              Mychael Urban's book takes a different view than Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" does. Urban goes in-depth to show you what goes on in the minds of Tim Hudson, Barry Zito, and Mark Mulder. Hudson, Zito, and Mulder are about as different as three men can be, but all three have one big thing in common: They are all driven to be the best.

              Urban's book discusses the trials and tribulations of the Big Three's and the A's 2004 season. It was a unique year for the A's, as they missed the playoffs for the first time since 1999. Urban had earned the trust of the Big Three, therefore all three let their guards down and talked about what makes them all tick. You'll read about Hudson's battle through an injury-plagued season, the always confident Mulder struggle through his first moment of self-doubt, and Zito's various musings.

              The book wraps up with the frantic few days during the 2004 off-season in which Hudson and Mulder were traded within two days of each other. This book is both a nice look back at the A's 2004 season and an excellent look at an interesting topic in the Big Three. A's fans will likely hang on to this book and look back in upcoming years on what a fantastic trio Hudson, Mulder, and Zito were.

              3 out of 5 stars Okay for fans...but not too illuminating.......2005-10-18

              I was looking forward to this book, as I'm a big fan of the A's system and was intrigued by the possibility of the story of the last season these three spent together. However, author Mychael Urban is kind of all over the place; he says that it's not a "team" profile or the profile of the season, but in fact that's prety much what it is. He tries to write around major aspects of the team's 2004 season -- the failure to find a closer for the first half of the season, injuries to Chavez and others -- but ends up spending quite a bit of time discussing them. The interviews with the 3 pitchers are interesting but not much different than one might find in a daily column or extended SI profile. Not a bad book for fans looking for a closer look at these three players, but the look isn't that much closer and there's not much suprising or unusual. "Moneyball" has much more of a take, and "Three Nights in August" conveys the day-to-day ball activity in a much richer manner.

              5 out of 5 stars Some kind of monster...........2005-05-18

              This book is awesome. It goes deep into the minds of these "Big Three", as pitchers and people. Through early season bullpen woes, to the dogdays of summer, to their slim loss of the division lead in the end of the season. The pitchers minds are dissected, from Zito's quirkiness and tendency to get too deep into his thoughts, to Mulder's calmness, to Hudson's aggressive "bulldog" mentality. This book is for anyone who loves sports, espessialy baseball, and anyone who respects the A's dominant run through the early 2000's. It is masterfully written, and a beautiful recount of, not only the "big three" we have grown to love, but the 2005 season, and the A's playoff hopes. It shows the breakdown off a pitchers mind before his start, and the other 4 days in between, and how these supposed "super humans" are just people. Mychael Urban's quick wit, and smooth style of writing make this memoir much more than just the report on each game's happenings, and make it into something special to share and read.

              5 out of 5 stars Great insight into the minds of 3 very good pitchers.......2005-05-04

              Aces is a great insight into the minds of three very good pitchers who have different personalities. Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito are known as the Big Three, three fantastic young pitchers on the Oakland A's staff. This book, by a daily newspaper beat writer, covers the three pitchers through the season. Although its about the A's, and Billy Beane wrote the foreward, its not like the famous book by Michael Lewis, Moneyball, at all. There's little in it about Beane's approach to baseball, except how the Big 3 feel about the A's lack of spending money. They aren't happy about not bringing in free agent talent due to their limited funds. The book goes through the mental aspects of the game, how Mulder and Zito both dealt with failure at different points in the season. Mulder had a great start but faltered in the 2nd half of the season, while Zito had a bad start but pitched well in the latter part of the season. After reading this book, its hard not to root for these three pitchers, even though they pitch for three different teams now. Urban did a great job.

              4 out of 5 stars After you read Angell's "A Pitcher's Story" -- read this!.......2005-04-29

              This book was a delight to read as I love to see inside the world of the players, and Urban does it with a breezy and fun style that is worth reading out loud (as I often did to my boyfriend, or whoever was nearby if they knew about baseball). The "big three" in Mulder, Hudson and Zito provide a study in contrasts that illuminates everything from what goes on inside a pitcher's head (or doesn't) while he's on the mound, to the importance of pitching coaches. I found myself wanting to copy out various sentences from the book to make sig quotes out of, sometimes from what the players said, sometimes from Urban's pithy and hip take on modern major league life.

              The book's only possible drawback is that I wanted more! There are some great personal moments (that also give insight into baseball), as with Zito using his guitar case as an illustration of Gary Sheffield's 'hitting zone', but I wanted more of them. The book was designed to cover just one season, but honestly I could have used a little bit less of a chronicle of the A's ups and downs in a season that wasn't that memorable and more of the pitchers talking pitching. Perhaps Urban will write another book that will satisfy me on that score later--I would buy it in a second. He's definitely one of the up an coming baseball scribes worth watching.

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                  Can You Really Get Paid to Shop? If you are looking for a flexible, fun way to make extra money, mystery shopping may be for you! You can get paid to shop, eat in restaurants, get your hair cut, go to the movies and more . . . and Cathy Stucker will show you how.

                  This newly updated and expanded edition of the industry-favorite guide is jammed with tips and insider knowledge from mystery shopping companies. Both beginners and experienced mystery shoppers will become better, more successful shoppers with the information in this manual, including:

                  o Why businesses are willing to pay you to shop.

                  o A step-by-step plan to get started.

                  o Who hires mystery shoppers and how to contact them.

                  o What to do--and what not to do--when working with mystery shopping companies.

                  o Tips for shopping "undercover" without being discovered.

                  o What you should say in your reports and how to say it.

                  o How to get more mystery shopping assignments and how to get the best assignments.

                  Customer Reviews:

                  5 out of 5 stars Mystery Shopper's Manual.......2007-08-29

                  This is a very amazing book with great tips. Gave a lot of information for the beginner.

                  5 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource.......2007-02-10

                  Contained everything I needed to get started with lots of valuable information and written with honesty and clarity.

                  2 out of 5 stars Read it in one night.......2007-01-25

                  This book is really for those who are in the beginning stages of *thinking* about getting into mystery shopping and covers the barest of basics. It does include the information for many companies so that one can immediately start filling out applications, but all this information can be found on the MSPA and [...].

                  When I purchased this book, I bought it in the hopes that it would be more of an actual 'manual'. I was looking for guidance about the verbiage that companies want used in their reports. If that is also what you are looking for, pass on this book as it does not really address this much needed information.

                  It also appears by the number of pages that the book is loaded with information, but the font is so big that the number of pages is very deceiving (roughly 3 pages of this book would equal 1 page in a regular book.)

                  Not to slam the book - it is a good read for someone thinking about getting into mystery shopping, but not for anyone that's done any mystery shopping already.

                  5 out of 5 stars Good Buy.......2007-01-10

                  Have just started reading the Mystery Shopper's Manual, but I believe it is a good resource and reference book. It would be a very good book for anyone interested in becoming a mystery shopper.

                  5 out of 5 stars Mystery shopping not a mystery after reading this book........2006-07-13

                  As a new mystery shopper, I was looking for a How To Book that would tell me what I needed to know in a concise manner and give me some tips on how to start mystery shopping.

                  She delivered. The book is full of insider tips that were well worth the cost of the big. She is informative as well as entertaining. It is the type of book that you can use as a reference book over and over again.

                  She obviously is an expert and that shows. She also warns about some of the pitfalls that might entice a new mystery shopper. This is a must for anyone just starting or someone who needs a refresher.

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                  Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (International Political Economy)
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                    When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the "tequila effect." In January 1998, after seven months of financial turmoil in East Asia, Alan Greenspan, the normally reticent Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, noted that such "vicious cycles....may, in fact, be a defining characteristic of the new high-tech international financial system." Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets examines the impact of the new, highly liquid, portfolio capital flows on governments, opposition politicians, business, and labor in such emerging market countries as Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

                    Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century
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                    Douglas S. Massey
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                    ASIN: 0691123039

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                    Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies on a resentful public. Conservatives capitalized on this with a staunch ideology of free markets, limited government, and conservative social values. The time is ripe for a liberal realignment, declares Massey, but what has been lacking is a consistent liberal ideology that explains to voters, in simple terms, government's vital role in producing a healthier, more financially equitable, less divided society.

                    This book supplies that ideology. Massey begins his powerful manifesto by laying out the liberals' mistakes over the past twenty years. Drawing on insights from the expanding field of economic sociology, he then sets forth a clear set of liberal principles to explain how markets work in society, principles he applies to articulate salable liberal policies.

                    After outlining a new liberal political philosophy, Massey traces liberalism's opposition and says plainly: liberals should have no illusions about the competition's resolve and skill. He closes with a practical approach to liberal coalition-building in America. The political economy conservatives have constructed in recent decades has benefited 20 percent of the people. Liberal success requires a return to material rather than symbolic politics, showing most Americans why it is in their economic as well as moral interest to support the liberal cause.

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                    5 out of 5 stars Much needed - especially for the 2006 Elections.......2005-08-04

                    The best part of the book is Dr. Massey's unflinching view of how the liberals essentially led to their own downfall thanks to the excesses of the 1970s identity politics and neglect of the working poor and middle-class.

                    His Chapter 3 is worth the price of the book as it outlines a great argument to the conservative's rallying cry of free markets. Liberals need to embrace the concept of "fair markets" as the best response to conservative slurs of liberals as being socialists.

                    5 out of 5 stars Honesty is the best economic and political policy.......2005-05-06

                    To revive the liberal movement in America and achieve future policy success, Princeton Professor Doug Massey argues that liberals need to articulate how their issue positions will speak and can speak to the everyday needs of people and how this has been done in the past.

                    Massey points out that the conservative movement benefits very few people, but effective marketing (and the subsequent positioning) has made all of the difference. People honestly believing that they are also included in the 'beneficiaries' of a conservative policy are not necessarily going to stop and read the very fine print.

                    But, it's the fine print which catches the 'everybody else' every single time. Conservative politicians talk about 'common people's lives' because they have learned this is what brings in the votes, but they remain as detached and self-absorbed as ever. They still want a majority of the wealth concentrated in a compact segment.

                    A key strength of Massey's work is that it recognizes the power of economic systems to bring about political and social transformation. Viewing markets as autonomous entities apart from politics ultimately proves disastrous and we need to be articulating how our world view will ultimately benefit other people in 'concrete ways' inside their own daily lives.
                    Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics: Justifying Global Governance in the American Century (New Visions in Security)
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                      Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics: Justifying Global Governance in the American Century (New Visions in Security)
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                      ASIN: 1403971803
                      Release Date: 2006-07-20

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                      Focusing on the development of justificatory discourse on global governance, Steffek examines how differing conceptions of distributive and social justice have played a role in negotiations in the domains of economics and protecting the environment.
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                        A Vision of a New Liberalism: Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis
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                          Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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                          ASIN: 0804731500

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                          In 1992, a year before his death, Yasusuke Murakami published in Japanese An Anti-Classical Political-Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century (English translation, Stanford, 1996). A work that distilled decades of research and thought by a distinguished economic theorist turned social scientist and philosopher, it sold more than 25,000 copies in Japan despite its highly scholarly nature. The book enjoyed such immediate recognition because it offered a sanguine vision for the community of nations and because Murakami’s vision was supported by acute insights on, and seminal analyses of the crucial issues relating to economic growth, equality, peace, and cultural diversity we face at the end of the twentieth century.

                          This volume presents nine essays—by five political scientists, three economists, and a historian—that critically evaluate the vision and analyses in Murakami’s book by focusing on his two key contributions. The first is “polymorphic liberalism,” a new type of liberalism that reflects the needs of both developed and developing economies and the realities of the diversity of cultures; the second is “developmentalism,” a long-term, multifaceted policy intervention in catch-up economic growth. The volume also contains, as appendixes, two essays that further a more complete understanding of Murakami’s book: a brief summary of Murakami’s “new economics,” his replacement for neoclassical economics, and a discussion of England as the first developmentalist success.

                          All the essays deal, in one way or another, with Murakami’s answers to such questions as: What new world order must be created to best provide peace and security to nations? What shared beliefs or principles can help evolve this new world order that is menaced by regional wars and serious international confrontations caused by political, economic, and ethnic-cultural conflicts? How will the character of industrialization change, and what must we do to best respond to changes that are likely to increase political and economic interdependence among nations? And what roles must the United States, the European Union, and Japan play to secure world peace, to maintain an orderly international trade regime, and to reduce disparity in nations’ income and wealth?

                          What's Left?: A New Democratic Vision for America
                          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                          • Not That Much New
                          • A wonderful, pro-worker progressive vision for AMerica
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                          4 out of 5 stars Not That Much New.......2003-06-26

                          To be honest I was a little disappointed with this book. Not because of what was written, but what was not written. I thought the book would be a well thought out plan or direction that the Democratic Party should take over the next decade. What I got was a review of Newt and the 94 -96 battles, a review of the Clinton administrations first term and then finally a view as to what is to come. Again the book was well written and the items covered were done so with a lot of passion, it was just not what I expected. I must admit that I love to read any book that gives Newt a hard time and this author certainly has no love for the man.

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                          A Vision of a New Liberalism? Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
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                            Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                            This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1050 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                            Title: A Vision of a New Liberalism? Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis.(Review) (book reviews)
                            Author: David M. Potter
                            Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
                            Date: September 1, 1999
                            Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
                            Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Page: 782(3)

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                              Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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                              Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                              This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 655 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                              Author: Mark Beeson
                              Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
                              Date: March 22, 1999
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