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Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods
Brousseau, Eric (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Global public goods (GPGs)--the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security--pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global...
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Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods
Brousseau, Eric (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Global public goods (GPGs)--the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security--pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535210
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America's Strategy in a Changing World
Lynn-Jones, Sean (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
At a time when events are overtaking many publications, these articles selected from International Security provide up-to-date and comprehensive analyses of American national security strategy in the post-Cold War world. Addressing future U.S. relations with its Cold War allies as well as with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756474
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The Economics of Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter - The MIT Press
This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756552
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Migration and the Welfare State: Political-Economy Policy Formation
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Suwankiri, Benjarong - The MIT Press
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535206
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Can Germany Be Saved?: The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State
Sinn, Hans-Werner - The MIT Press
, one of Germany's leading economists, takes a frank look at his country's economic problems and proposes welfare- and tax …-reform measures aimed at returning Germany to its former vigor and vitality. Germany invented the welfare state in the 1880s when … for other industrialized countries. But, Sinn argues, today's German welfare state has incurred immense fiscal costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991829
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Can Germany Be Saved?: The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State
Sinn, Hans-Werner - The MIT Press
, one of Germany's leading economists, takes a frank look at his country's economic problems and proposes welfare- and tax …-reform measures aimed at returning Germany to its former vigor and vitality. Germany invented the welfare state in the 1880s when … for other industrialized countries. But, Sinn argues, today's German welfare state has incurred immense fiscal costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991845
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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests
Gomory, Ralph E.; Baumol, William J. - The MIT Press
country's productive capabilities is often attainable only at the expense of another country's general welfare. The authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972999
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The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - The MIT Press
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973050
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International Trade and Trade Policy
Helpman, Elhanan (contributor); Razin, Assaf (contributor) - The MIT Press
including empirical studies of the welfare effects of quality - upgrading voluntary export restrictions and import quotas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973154