High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central … economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow … researchers to analyze these problems and how they are affected by economic policy. In this book, experts on Latin American …

discusses such subjects as institutional economics, water law, how economics is used in policy and cost-benefit analysis, the …

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 …

stability of the financial markets and possible policy options to reduce future vulnerability to crises, including Glass … national interests in industrial policy; reforming and preserving the welfare state in the face of unemployment, population …

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 …

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 …