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 …

The European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economic integration among a few Western European … 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 …

of taxes on economic decisions and equilibrium outcomes, as well as useful insights into how policy makers should design …This concise introduction to the economic theories of taxation is intuitive yet rigorous, relating the theories both to … taxes. It covers such issues of central policy importance as taxation of income from capital, environmental taxation, and …

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 …

informing and influencing tax policy design. Scholars of public economics formulate models of optimal tax-transfer systems based … the lessons it holds for tax policy. He describes the theoretical challenges posed by recent findings in such fields as … inform tax policy. …

policy-making efforts in science and technology. …

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 …

such topics as the effect of euro zone expansion on European Central Bank monetary policy making; using the euro as an … policy in a direct democracy framework; detailed sector analysis using a computable general equilibrium model of the world …

. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with … demographic and economic strands of the story, the chapters present cutting-edge research, offering both theoretical and empirical …