About the editor -- About the contributors -- Introduction and creation -- Special events with a social mission / Julie Cencula Olberding -- Events in the era of social enterprise / Julie Cencula Olberding -- Successful start-up of a special event : laying the groundwork with market research and...

Main description: With chapters written by some of the nation's foremost economists, political scientists, and legal scholars, Regulatory Breakdown brings clarity to the heated debate over regulation by dissecting the disparate causes of the current crisis as well as analyzing the most promising...

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled...

Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their...

Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and...

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure...

Main description: Irvine Anderson carefully reconstructs the years between 1933 and 1950 and provides a case study of the evolution of U.S. foreign oil policy and of the complex relationships between the U.S. government and the business world.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Tax Expenditure Budget -- II. Some Uses of the Tax Expenditure Budget -- III. The Effects of Tax Expenditures on the Taxes People and Corporations Pay -- IV. Operational Aspects of Tax Expenditures: Tax Deferral and Tax Shelters --...