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In his new book, Peter Wallison argues the Dodd-Frank Act was the result of a false narrative about the 2008 financial crisis, blaming the crisis on the private sectors when in fact it was caused by the US government’s housing policies. This was not harmless error; the act will suppress...
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In this volume, the author describes the changes in wages during the 1980s that led to increased rewards in schooling in the labor market.
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This studyprovides a unique framework for analyzing the role of the GATS and the WTO in the liberalization and regulation of the financial services sector.
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The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.
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Revolutionary changes, includingthe shrinking of traditional banking and the expansion of trading in foreign securities, have recently rocked financial markets.
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A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.
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This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.
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Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.
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The author analyzes price controls from the Federal Power Commission.
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Two achievements--up the poor and animating civil society--are powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.
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