State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the … : demographic and economic changes and state and local government finances -- 4. Politics, the courts, and the economy … : implications for the future of school financing -- 5. Popular processes and the transformation of state and local government …

1. Innovation policies in a globalised world -- 2. The Japanese model of low government intervention -- 3. The South … Korean model of increasing privatisation of industrial R&D -- 4. The Singaporean model of increasing government intervention …This unique book offers a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of government with respect to domestic technology …

implications for multinational-government relations, multinationals" self-governance, relations with NGOs and issues of …

1. On the choice of regime -- 2. Models of government -- 3. The parameters -- 4. Autocratic, democratic, and optimal … government -- 5. Variations on the democratic model -- 6. Fiscal rules for a democracy -- 7. A constitutional approach to taxes …

younger economists are notably less pessimistic about markets and more pessimistic about government than their predecessors …. Much of the new analysis suggests that private property rights and contracts can exist without government, and that even … though problems exist, government does not seem to offer a solution. Might anarchy be the best choice after all? This …

them in this book as will policy makers in government and research policy agencies. It will also hold great appeal to …