Yugoslav planners have not been able to organise the volume of residental construction to their satisfaction. This paper notes two fundamental reasons for their difficulty.One route to an optimal amount of residential construction requires that decision-making be vested in administrative units...

Policy driven social science research intended to influence the future of the U.S. welfare state has, during the past decade, emphasized improving the life-chances of children, particularly children disadvantaged at birth by the socioeconomic status of their parents. This essay samples that...

Distributions of income after allocating all government taxes and expenditures to households are compared over two decades. Extending prior work back an additional decade and adding extensive sensitivity analyses leave our earlier conclusions unaffected. Specifically, despite efforts towards a...