In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study …-tech industries and services. The profits that true innovators in these industries once enjoyed have already declined, but profit …. Amsden and Chu examine the successful second movers in electronics and modern services. The critical factors, they show, are …

The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach …--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers’ efforts to promote alternative … energy, impose emission controls on cars, and enforce tough energy-efficiency standards for buildings, the relentlessly …

twenty-seven member states. The recent financial and economic crises have tested this still-evolving institutional framework …, and this book surveys key economic challenges faced by the EU. Prominent European economists examine such topics as the … stability of the financial markets and possible policy options to reduce future vulnerability to crises, including Glass …

of taxes on economic decisions and equilibrium outcomes, as well as useful insights into how policy makers should design … taxes. It covers such issues of central policy importance as taxation of income from capital, environmental taxation, and … environmental taxation in both theory and policy chapters. The book is aimed at graduate students or advanced undergraduates taking …

unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their … write, is simply not designed to make policy choices on behalf of the public. It is virtually impossible for the public and … limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable accident. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of …

, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization … and James Mongan see the inefficiency, the missed opportunities, and the occasional harm that can result from the current … is organization, and in this timely and outspoken book, they offer a plan. In many ways, this chaos is caused by …

informing and influencing tax policy design. Scholars of public economics formulate models of optimal tax-transfer systems based … treatment of retirement savings and human capital investment. Boadway charts the evolution of optimal tax analysis and discusses … complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role of optimal tax analysis in …

playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of … policy-making efforts in science and technology. … genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops …

it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously … policy and deciding who benefits from it. On health care reform, Baker complains that economists ignore another basic idea … Seriously offers an alternative Econ 101. It introduces economic principles and thinks through what we might gain if we free …

economy; investment and job creation and destruction in incumbent member countries; and the asymmetric effects of enlargement … Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members … and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement particularly challenging. Not only do these countries vary widely in …