Financing Tomorrow's Infrastructure - Challenges and Issues : Proceedings of a Colloquium

FINANCING TOMORROW'S INFRASTRUCTURE -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- Overview -- Balancing Present Costs and Future Benefits -- PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS -- PUBLIC PROJECTS: RESOURCE FLOWS AND MONEY FLOWS -- BORROWING FROM OURSELVES -- WHY FINANCING MATTERS -- Importing Investment Capital -- Tax Avoidance Strategies -- Shifting Productivity to Present -- Lax Fiscal Discipline -- SHOULD WE BUILD AND FOR WHOM -- DISCOUNTING -- EQUAL STANDING: ADDING ETHICS TO ECONOMICS -- EQUAL STANDING: ADDING ETHICS TO ECONOMICS -- FINAL WORD TO THE PRESENT -- DISCUSSION -- Infrastructure Challenges and Issues: A Panel -- Domestic Agenda -- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT -- ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE REPORT -- U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS REPORT -- CONCLUSION -- International Perspective -- Current Issues in Infrastructure Finance -- Discussion of the Morning Presentations -- Technology, Infrastructure, and Competitiveness in a National Innovation System -- NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION SYSTEM -- FINANCING INNOVATION -- REGULATORY OBSTACLES -- ROLE OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES -- CONCLUSION -- Future of Infrastructure Finance -- Dulles Greenway: Private Provision of Transportation Infrastructure -- DISCUSSION -- Flexibility in Infrastructure Finance -- DISCUSSION -- Perspective of the Investment Community -- DISCUSSION -- Solutions for Local Government -- Biographical Sketches of Colloquium Participants.