Author: Mark RattermannPublisher: Appraisal Institute
ISBN: 9780922154937
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Valuation by Comparison
Author: Mark RattermannPublisher: Appraisal Institute
ISBN: 9780922154937
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Where Is My Flying Car?
Author: J. Storrs HallPublisher: Stripe Press
ISBN: 1953953271
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Comparisons of Metropolitan-nonmetropolitan Poverty During the 1990s
Author: Dean JolliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Focus On: 100 Most Popular Compact Cars
Author: Wikipedia contributorsPublisher: e-artnow sro
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
Book Description
A Legislative History of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Together with a Section-by-section Index
Author: A Report on Activities Under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 and the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act of 1972
Author: International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
Author: Alan HestonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226331121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.
Family Economics Review
Author: Cars Annd Competition
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Bullshit Comparisons
Author: Andrew BrooksPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1804440876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Bullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons. Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most successful university? Is Lisbon the new Barcelona? Should we compare the achievements of younger and older siblings even when we know it damages their self-worth? We make comparisons every day, but how helpful are they? Looking across a dazzling range of situations both familiar and unfamiliar, Bullshit Comparisons is a ground-breaking examination of the role of comparison in modern society, illuminated by examples spanning from the FIFA World Footballer of the year, to wine-tasting in London, hospital care in Sierra Leone and avocado farming in Colombia. Challenging us to think critically about the use of comparison through accessible, personal, and often amusing research, Andrew Brooks reveals the uses and abuses of comparisons in a book that isn't like anything else you have read.