Thomas M Sterner

The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life

Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If we’d given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, we’d never have learned to walk, tie our shoes, or ride a bike. So why, as adults, do we often throw in the towel when at first we don’t succeed? Modern life’s technological speed, ...

Ejercita tu mente (Spanish Edition)

Tom Sterner propone un metodo para adquirir la disciplina que nos hace falta para poder lograr lo que nos proponemos. Sterner plantea una tecnica de motivacion para enfocar mejor nuestra atencion, dejar de postergar nuestros deberes, y, a traves de la practica, ir acercandonos cada vez mas a nuestro...

Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe

The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation-sometimes called 'command and control' policies-and regulation by economic, or market-based incentives. This book is the first to compare the costs and outcomes of these approaches by examining realworld applications. In a...

Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy (Environment for Development)

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and imp...

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic 'toolkit' for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other information disclosure mechanisms. Though not all these devices are widely used, empirical application ...

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A...

The Meditating Mind: Making Meditation a Part of Your Life

A mind that is still is indeed a rarity in today's world. We are constantly multi-tasking as we are pushed harder and harder to get more done in less time. Having an agitated and over-stimulated mind, though stressful and tiring, has grown to feel normal because we have either forgotten or never lea...

The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life (AUDIOBOOK) [Audio CD] [2007] (Author) Thomas M. Sterner