…the United States. Labor economist Ronald Kutscher has described the strategy of assembling a just–in–time labor force,” analogous to the parts now kept flexibly available in “just–in–time inventory.”35 The projected 27–hour…
…example, people spend most of their time indoors (only approximately 1½ hours each day outside), but analyses rarely take into account actual daily time budgets. Incompleteness of data is also…
…governments ran aid adaptation is through timely information. One variety is assessments of the issues relating to climatic change. A second important and more operational variety of information is improved…
…that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in traditional Chinese medicine. Better Viagra than Tiger Bone or Rhino Horn, as Richard Ellis has written….
…will trigger a catastrophic change, say to a severe Ice Age. So, I say, let us prepare, just in case. Purchase some insurance. We routinely do. Insurance, in its literal…
…in general, efficiency in energy favors efficiency in materials; efficiency in materials favors efficiency in land; efficiency in land favors efficiency in water; and efficiency in water favors efficiency in…
…cluster of innovations including tractors, seeds, chemicals, and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets, raised the yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. We…
…use” (IOU) (Malenbaum 1978). It is the product, usually measured in weight or volume, consumed per unit GDP, illustrated in the identity in the preceding section by paper per GDP….
…The invasion of smallpox into Central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest depopulated central Mexico.[17] Gonorrhea depopulated the Pacific island of Yap.[18] At the time of its founding…
…northern Ukraine is poor, and in some ways undeveloped. The underdevelopment accounts for some of its ecological interest. I will narrate my visit, sharing impressions and drawing lessons along the…