Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
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Category : Trade routes
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.

Author: Robert W. Poole
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.

Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: Tim Todd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974480978
Category : African American banks
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Generally, books addressing the early history of African American banks have done so either within the larger construct of African American business history and economic development, or as a starting point to explore current issues related to financial services. Focused considerations of these early institutions and their founders have been relatively rare and somewhat scattered. This publication seeks to address this issue.

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 1296

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Laws and regulations
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Air mail subsidies
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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