Addresses the potential effects of Joel Slemrod's survey results of National Tax Association members' opinions (National Tax Journal vol. 48, no. 1, p. 121) on tax policy in 1995-6, specifically in five broad categories: relative taxation of income and consumption, the degree of progressivity,...

Gerard M. Brannon remembers Daniel Holland.

<DIV>Russia is a huge storehouse of natural resources, including oil, gas, and other energy sources, which she can trade with the rest of the world for advanced technology and wheat. In this book, leading experts evaluate the Soviet potential in major energy and industrial raw materials, giving...</div>

Medicare has been much in the news, amid the swirling public-policy debate over President Obama’s push for “health care reform”. It is Exhibit #1 as a public health insurance program, which many Democrats insist is essential to true reform. President Obama’s chief budget officer,...

When private spending plummeted in 2008, economists’ kneejerk response was to plug the gap with new government expenditures. Massive public spending not related to war had not been tried since the 1930’s. But the depth of the crisis, an abundance of willing constituent/recipients, and the...

Governor Jodi Rell put the kibosh on the proposed new “University hospital”, on fiscal austerity grounds, before the public debate had barely started. Nonetheless, the joint proposal by the UConn Health Center and Hartford Hospital raised some hard questions that elected officials will have...