The macroeconomics of populism / Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards -- The political economy of Latin American populism / Robert R. Kaufman, Barbara Stallings -- Populism, profligacy, and redistribution / Eliana Cardoso, Ann Helwege -- Description of a populist experience: Argentina, 1973-1976...

"Taking an empirical economics perspective, this volume assesses the causal impacts of disadvantage on youth outcomes and how policy interventions can alleviate those impacts. Each chapter develops a framework to describe the relationship between youth disadvantages and later life outcomes,...

The 1990s economic performance of the US suggests that the country may have the right mix of institutions and policies to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status and examines whether the US fulfills these criterion. The...