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Pollin, Robert - The MIT Press

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States--today faced with its highest level of unemployment since the Great...

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Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria

Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi - The MIT Press

Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that’s how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically...

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The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Lerner, Josh - The MIT Press

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open...

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The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Lerner, Josh - The MIT Press

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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

Allison, Graham (contributor) - The MIT Press

When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming...

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Privatizing Russia

Boycko, Maxim; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - The MIT Press

Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of the Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising...

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Worker Leadership: America's Secret Weapon in the Battle for Industrial Competitiveness

Stahl, Fred - The MIT Press

labor. It promotes the vitality and growth of labor unions through a shared responsibility with management for growth and …

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Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009

Cohen Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - The MIT Press

unanticipated wave of immigration can be integrated within the local labor market without any significant long-term adverse economic …

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Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America

Kochan, Thomas A. - The MIT Press

American dream of good jobs, fair pay, and opportunities for all. In this call to action for families, business, labor, and … highly as they do investors of financial capital, and we need a renewed labor movement to give workers a stronger voice …. Kochan lays out an agenda for working families in the twenty-first century that calls for business, labor, government, and …

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Contract Theory

Bolton, Patrick; Dewatripont, Mathias - The MIT Press

. It also presents many applications in all areas of economics, especially labor economics, industrial organization, and …

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