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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, Quentin - 2014
used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069511
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Perceived FOMC : The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers
Bordo, Michael D. - 2018
Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...
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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
In order to enforce a collective choice to allocate resource to guarding against predators producers must subject themselves to the state's sovereign power to tax and to spend. But these sovereign powers in hand the state can exploit the producers by taxing and spending for its" own purposes....
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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
labor and environmental policies, and would lead to a significant loss of sovereignty for national governments. In this … labor and environmental standards, and that with relatively modest changes that grant governments more sovereignty, not less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312480
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National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2022
national sovereignty. In this paper, we propose answers to these two questions. We do so by first developing formal definitions … of national sovereignty that capture features of sovereignty emphasized in the political science literature. We then … utilize these definitions to describe the degree and nature of national sovereignty possessed by governments in a benchmark …
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Gun Control after Heller : Litigating Against Regulation
Cook, Philip J. - 2010
The "core right" established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the most stringent existing regulations - such...
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Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era
Thompson, Owen - 2019
Large black-white fertility differences are a key feature of US demography, and are closely related to the broader dynamics of US racial inequality. To better understand the origins and determinants of racial fertility differentials, this paper examines fertility patterns in the period...
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Continuous Versus Episodic Change : The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
Donohue, John J.; Heckman, James J. - 2021
This paper examines the available evidence on the causes of black economic advance in order to assess the contribution of federal policy. Over the period 1920-1990, there were only two periods of relative black economic improvement -- during the 1940s and in the decade following the passage of...
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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - 2021
Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...
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Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination
Black, Sandra E.; Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2021
While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s...
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