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Intro -- Advance Praise for Adapt and Be Adept -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Accepted but Ineffective Climate Policies -- Market Adaptation to Climate Change -- Filling Missing Market Niches -- To Adapt or Not to Adapt -- Conclusion -- 2. Hydrocarbons Are Here to Stay -- Physics Realities of Wind and Solar -- More Hidden Costs -- Batteries Cannot Save the Grid or the Planet -- Moore's Law Misapplied -- The Physics Limits of Green Dreams and Energy Revolutions -- Digitalization Won't Uberize the Energy Sector -- Energy Revolutions Are Still beyond the Horizon -- Energy Productivity and Wealth: Keys for Adaptation to Everything -- 3. The Political Realities of Climate Policy -- The Political Economy of Top-Down Climate Policy -- Polarized Views Make Reconciliation Difficult -- Turning to Markets -- Conclusion -- 4. Merging Trade and Climate Policy -- Climate Policy Options and Trade -- The Threat of Trade Linkage -- A Snapshot of World Carbon Trade -- Balancing the Way Forward -- Conclusion -- 5. Subsistence in Alaska Native Villages: Adapting in the Face of Climate Change and Government Regulations -- The Nature of Subsistence -- Adaptation Strategies -- How State and Federal Regimes Hinder Adaptation to Climate Change -- Maximizing ANV Adaptation under Existing Law and the Potential for Legal and Institutional Change -- Conclusion -- 6. Improving Price Discovery to Accelerate Adaptation to Climate Change -- Background -- Theory -- Supply and Demand for Information and Price Discovery -- Incentives Induced by Information and Price Dynamics -- Adaptation Tools -- The Role of Government in Private Adaptation -- Conclusion -- 7. Can Fire Insurance Manage Wildfire Risks in California? -- Epilogue: Adaptation-Simple but Effective -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.

"You Have to Admit It's Getting Better shows how, by focusing our energies on developing and protecting the institutions of freedom, rather than on regulating human use of natural resources through political processes, we can in fact have our environmental cake and eat it, too. The book offers a number of revelations that debunk many commonly held beliefs about the future of our environment. It shows, for example, how liberalization of international trade is more likely to improve environmental quality than reduce it. It also explains how the prosperity and improved human well-being that we enjoy today are not leaving future generations worse off but rather leaving them with more capital and larger stocks of natural resources

During the past few years new measures of growth have begun to emerge for the colonial period in American history which allow us to understand more fully the pace and pattern of long-run economic growth. This essay summarizes what we know about colonial growth and discusses rates of growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After summarizing previous work on the subject, the paper estimates eighteenth-century agricultural productivity in one New England county. Data on total wealth, livestock, crops, land, and agricultural capital are generated from estate inventories. A consumer price index for the period also is constructed. From these data it appears that the seventeenth century experienced growth comparable to modern times, whereas the eighteenth century was a bleak period in our history. Although real wealth per inventory grew at a rate of 0.5 percent per year during the eighteenth century, agricultural productivity declined at a rate of 0.8 percent.