Chapter Five: The Durable Future

Selected Websites

China Commodity City
http://en.onccc.com/

Center for Global Food Issues
http://www.cgfi.org/

Economist’s Quality of Life Index
http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/quality_of_life.pdf

Green Economics
In March 2007 Bill McKibben appeared on the radio show "On the Point" with Marvin Zonis, a political economist. The show features a robust discussion the future of the planet. This site includes a link to stream the audio.

Harvard Insitute of Economic Research
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/pub/hier/2005/HIER2068.pdf

The Land Institute
http://www.landinstitute.org/

United Nations Development Programme: China
http://www.undp.org.cn

 

Selected Books

Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
1st floor, Business and Entrepreneurship Resources area HM 846 .F74 2007
4th floor HM 846 .F74 2007

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Rifkin, Jeremy. The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004. 4th floor HC 240 .R54 2004

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Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 4th floor HC 59.72 .S225 2005