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generating new revenue streams. In this book, intellectual property expert and Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey offers a …
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This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the extent to which the Internet is …
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Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita around the world. Yet this … extraordinary overall performance masks a wide variation in growth rates across different countries, with persistent … underdevelopment in some parts of the world. This disparity constitutes "the development puzzle," and it is exemplified by growth …
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have helped as well. Miguel warns, though, that the growth is fragile. Violence and climate change could derail it quickly … impact, while others think that Miguel has underestimated the threats represented by climate change and population growth …
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growth and prosperity after a financial crisis and deep depression in the early 1990s. Economic Prosperity Recaptured offers … 1980s through deep crisis in the early 1990s to recovery and growth since the mid-1990s. Finland's complex road to recovery … channel" of the monetary system. Finland's rapid economic growth since the mid-1990s is largely the result of its structural …
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For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America’s most prominent law and accounting … their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic …
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Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow intertemporal smoothing of consumption by households and expenditures by firms; and they enable...
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Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A … welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the … state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare …
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country's productive capabilities is often attainable only at the expense of another country's general welfare. The authors …
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In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the … effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain …
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