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Generational policy
How generational policy affects the sustainability of a government's fiscal policy.In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of genera…
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- 9780262277532
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages).
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- 330 KOT g
Growth and empowerment :making development happen
Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment, Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Roge…
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- 9780262284349
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 463 pages) : illustrations.
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- Munich Lectures in Economics
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Economics after the crisis :objectives and means
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took place. Perhaps the correct response to the crisis is simply careful management of the macroeconomic cha…
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- 9780262301756
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 108 pages) :illustrations.
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Comparative Political Economy: A Retrospective
The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277143
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- 1 online resource (viii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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What Have We Learned?: Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis
Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to rethink basic theory. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate and one of this volume's editors, compares the cr…
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- 9780262323444
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- 1 online resource (vii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Institutions, development, and economic growth
Annotation The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms by which institu…
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- 9780262272223
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations
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- CESifo Seminar Series
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Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence
Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies.Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270731
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- 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Collision course : endless growth on a finite planet
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320917
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 384 pages)
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Systemic risk, crises, and macroprudential regulation
Offering a framework for understanding the reasons for the regulatory shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential approach to financial regulation, this book provides a list of challenges in the implementation of macroprudential policy and a discussion on its limitations. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262328609
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 472 pages) :illustrations
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Planning, shortage, and transformation :essays in honor of J?anos Kornai
The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. After a philosophical introduction by Edmond…
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- 9780262279222
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages) :illustrations
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