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 …; and the idea that an environment that fosters internal competition will increase Europe’s competitiveness internationally. …

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 …

Many things inform a country’s choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic … 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 …

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 …

offers excellent examples of both unsuccessful and successful policy responses to changing circumstances. The authors examine … the three relatively distinct periods of Finland's recent experience, analyzing the adequacy of the macroeconomic policy …

. Then during the Reagan era, American policy changed. The definition of laissez-faire shifted from "Do it your way" to an …