policy to address them. Contributors first analyze the historical evolution of inequality in Latin America, examining such …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 …

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 … treatment of retirement savings and human capital investment. Boadway charts the evolution of optimal tax analysis and discusses … 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 …

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 …