Turning off the Heat or The Economics of Women Men and Work

Turning off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency To Save Money and Reduce Global Warming

Author: Thomas R Casten

Global warming, the result of increasing carbon dioxide emissions from energy producers and users, has become a danger to humans, threatening radical climate changes, severe storms, and ecological havoc. Turning Off the Heat targets a main source of overuse of fossil fuels--the energy producers themselves who, through their government-approved monopolies, have led to energy inefficiency and needless pollution.

Library Journal

Carbon dioxide emission and its relationship to global warming is the subject of a raging debate among scientists and world leaders. Federal and state governments have proposed three actions to decarbonize our economy: put a cap on carbon emissions, place revenue-neutral taxes on energy, and establish a renewable energy portfolio standard. Casten, an entrepreneur in the field of energy conversions for 20 years, offers another solution, a variant on the carbon-cap approach specifically targeting energy producers. The Fossil-Fuel Efficiency Standard (FFES) would eliminate all government subsidies on fossil fuels, deregulate the electric industry, and eliminate the barriers to efficiency embodied in environmental and regulatory laws. A built-in time line would give businesses time to adapt to the standard. Additionally, the FFES would promote research, thus driving down the price of renewable energies. This thoughtful work adds to the national debate. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.--Eva Lautemann, DeKalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, GA

Booknews

An advocate of market-based solutions to environmental problems documents the enormous waste of energy and heat in the US, and calls for further deregulation of what he calls the 90-year monopoly on the production and sale of electricity. With the industry unshackled, he says, competition would force companies to produce more efficiently and the price of electricity would drop radically. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface	1
1	Establishing the Problem and a Market Perspective	15
2	Understanding Monopoly Behavior	25
3	Noblesse Oblige - For Planet Earth	70
4	Sending Price Signals	84
5	Linking Deregulation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction	105
6	Facing the Challenge: Stabilizing Global Carbon Dioxide	119
7	Changing Consumer Attitudes Toward Energy Use	130
8	Barriers to Efficiency	146
9	Federal Action to Decarbonize	198
10	Errata - Energy Regulatory Reform and Tax Act	230
	Notes	235
	Glossary	243
	Index	263

Interesting textbook: Men and the War on Obesity or A Fit and Well Way of Life

The Economics of Women, Men, and Work

Author: Marianne A Ferber

/*9095B-3, 0-13-090922-X, Blau, Francine D., Economics of Women, Men and Work, 4/E*/ This single, highly accessible volume explores the most current summary and synthesis of research and data from economics and the social sciences on women, men, and work in the labor market and household. Women and Men: Changing Roles in a Changing Economy. The Family as an Economic Unit. The Allocation of Time Between the Household and the Labor Market. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: Overview. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: The Human Capital Model. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: The Role of Labor Market Discrimination. Recent Developments in the Labor Market: Their Impact on Women and Men. Changing Work Roles and the Family. Policies to Balance Paid Work and Family. Gender Differences in Other Countries. Economists, Sociologists, Social Workers, Demographers, Policy Analysts, Labor Market Analysts. Also of interest to noneconomists and students who would like to learn about gender issues in the workplace and in the family but have little, if any, prior background in economics.

Booknews

This text is designed to acquaint students with research findings concerning women, men, and work, both in the labor market and in the household. It is intended primarily for courses concerned with the economic status of women. Topics include the narrowing gender pay gap, the declining employment prospects of less-educated men, wage stagnation, corporate restructuring, and changing family structures. The authors assume a knowledge of introductory economics but not of advanced theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.