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Sjoquist, David L. (contributor) - 2003

State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and...

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

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Long-run growth and short-run stabilization : essays in memory of Albert Ando

Ando, Albert (contributor); … - 2006

There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment-inflation trade-off. Few …

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Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Rodgers, William M. (contributor) - 2006

Pt. 1. New methods -- pt. 2. Beyond race and gender -- pt. 3. Policy impacts …

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New directions in the study of work and employment : revitalizing industrial relations as an academic enterprise

Whalen, Charles Joseph (contributor) - 2008

Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...

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The Kennedy-Johnson tax cut : a revisionist history

Prachowny, Martin F. J. - 2000

The 1964 Kennedy-Johnson tax cut is often cited as the single most successful application of Keynesian stabilization policy. The author challenges this orthodox historical view by exposing the haphazard planning, simplistic economic theorizing, irreconcilable numerical projections, and partisan...

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Climate change, transport, and environmental policy : empirical applications in a federal system

Proost, S. (ed.); Braden, John B. (ed.) - 1998

This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The...

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Does financial deregulation work? : a critique of free market approaches

Coggins, Bruce - 1998

Does Financial Deregulation Work? studies the process of financial deregulation in the United States. It exposes the basic flaws in the deregulationist approach and advances a new framework for effective financial regulation. Bruce Coggins provides a detailed and comprehensive critique of the...

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The economics of technology and employment : theory and empirical evidence

Vivarelli, Marco - 1995

The impact of technical change on employment is investigated in this important new book which offers a critical … Employment addresses the impact of technical change on employment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. After an … results are combined to demonstrate that the employment impact of labour saving technologies can only be partially counter …

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Environmental policy and fiscal federalism : selected essays of Wallace E. Oates

Oates, Wallace E. - 2004

Wallace Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays brings together his recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes papers on the political...

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