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Muller, Jerry Z. - 2018

The argument in a nutshell -- Recurring flaws --The origins of measuring and paying for performance -- Why metrics became so popular -- Principals, agents, and motivation -- Philosophical critiques -- Colleges and universities -- Schools -- Medicine -- Policing -- The military -- Business and...

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Introduction to The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition

Grand, Julian Le - Princeton University Press

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive...

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Prologue

Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press

that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. He shows that economic development is a … their land, labor, capital, and infrastructure. Countries need to identify and facilitate the development of those … development. At the same time, states need to recognize the power of markets, limiting the role of government to allow firms to …

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Introduction to Behavioral Economics and Its Applications

Diamond, Peter; Vartiainen, Hannu - Princeton University Press

have not yet been fully incorporated--public economics, development, law and economics, health, wage determination, and … organizational economics. The result is an attempt to set the agenda of an important development in economics--an agenda that will …

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Soviet Development in World-Historical Perspective, from Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Allen, Robert C. - Princeton University Press

development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original …

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The Next Great Globalization: A Force for Good

Mishkin, Frederic S. - Princeton University Press

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in The Next Great Globalization, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for...

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Public Capital, Growth and Welfare: Analytical Foundations for Public Policy

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - Princeton University Press

, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development …

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Introduction to The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond

Eichengreen, Barry - Princeton University Press

the extraordinary development of Europe's economy since the end of World War II. Barry Eichengreen argues that the …

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Introduction to Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field

Kapstein, Ethan B. - Princeton University Press

stake in contemporary debates over poverty reduction and development, the book provides a breakthrough analysis of what the …

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Introduction to Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

Findlay, Ronald; O'Rourke, Kevin H. - Princeton University Press

. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course …

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