Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age
An International Comparison of Public Sector Managers 1945–1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This book provides a critical reassessment of the role of the public sector during the Golden Age in both advanced and emerging economies. Contributions focus on a major player in the setting of mixed economies: the top managers of state-owned enterprises. Bringing together world-renowned scholars,...
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2016, Western Hemisphere Department
Managing Transitions and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The United States has seen an improvement in economic activity, driven by consumption, and has taken a first step toward gradual normalization of interest rates. The U.S. recovery continues to support activity in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, but China’s slowdown has reduced the demand...
The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Despite a gradual and sustained decline in the contribution of agriculture to the economies of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the sector remains socially and politically important. Although agriculture accounts for less than 2% of the gross...
Empowering Exporters
Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Until the New Deal, most groups seeking protection from imports were successful in obtaining relief from Congress. In general the cost of paying the tariffs for consumers was less than the cost of mounting collective action to stop the tariffs. In 1934, with the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
Incentives to Pander
How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting investment....
Organizing the 1%
How Corporate Power Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy.
In...
Risk Regulation in Europe
Assessing the Application of the Precautionary Principle
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks. The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a suspected risk of causing...
Inclusion in the American Dream
Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy. The typical American household accumulates most of its assets in home equity and retirement accounts, both of which are subsidized through...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This book discusses the 1918 European socialization debate, its consequences, and its relevance a century later. Following the end of the First World War, the disastrous social and economic situation facing Europe led to calls for socialization of central economic sectors, as well as measures for...
by Jeffrey Weber
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
I was fortunate to get the chance to harvest my four years of tweets. Starting with over 41,000 tweets I whittled the total down to a little over 13,000. Then I started to put my tweets in categories and two that jumped off the page were politics and economics.
I realized I had printed many...
Capitalism, Socialism and Property Rights
Why Market Socialism Cannot Substitute the Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
The comparative analysis of socialist and capitalist economic systems has given rise to a voluminous literature in the history of economic thought, yet detailed analysis of the “market socialism” model, which seeks to imitate the functional efficiency of capitalism by simulating a competitive...
Energy Transition
Financing Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewables
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition. In June 2018, the European Union agreed on a corresponding enabling framework as part of a recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). The transposition of these comprehensive rules –...
Firefighting
The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.
In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the...
by Steven Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In complex fields such as finance and economics, a common blunder involves a mix-up between the destination and the journey. The confusion is showcased by the hoopla during the financial crisis of 2008 in tandem with the debt crisis in Europe.Among the rash of muck-ups, one example was the...