Economic Policy & Development
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas W. Arner

Fintech The current excitement surrounding financial technology (fintech) may seem to make standardization all the more banal. Why is there a need for standardization and all of the associated upfront ...
( Category: Canadian February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Robin Hahnel [Hahnel, Robin]

7 Money, Banks, and Finance A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Howard Waitzkin [Waitzkin, Howard]

RESISTANCE TO PRIVATIZATION OF WATER IN BOLIVIA Although clean water remains a fundamental goal of public health, the world’s declining supplies of fresh water have emerged as a new frontier ...
( Category: Social Policy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Calabresi, Guido

C. But this is not all that a real-world look at the categories described in “The Cathedral” article tells us. That article also described shifts in entitlements that were excluded ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.;

Thus, as the CA raises σ(q1) to make prosecution more likely for a small amount of collusion, it must increase to deter a low-cost cartel from engaging in a large ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Chandran Nair

The Current View of Prosperity In the Western economic model, which has been exported to the rest of the world, prosperity is equivalent to consumption. The more one consumes and ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Jeremy Green

Global fault lines The intellectual vision championed by the disciples of the Mont Pelerin Society has had devastating effects. Stripped of its commitments to full employment, capital controls, and a ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Sharyn O'Halloran

Figure 13.13 Histogram of Relative Reduction in EEPE over All Netting Sets. (0 out of 1,378 have more than 150% increase and are not shown, 0 of those have zero ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Deborah Hargreaves

It’s not all about money This fits in with other research on executive pay, suggesting that highly-skilled people in positions of key responsibility, already well-paid in comparison to wider society, ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Renate Pieper & Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies & Markus Denzel

Summary and Discussion: America as a Trigger for the Advancement of Europe At the height of the (first) American silver boom in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Blake Masters

HOW TO FIND SECRETS There are two kinds of secrets: secrets of nature and secrets about people. Natural secrets exist all around us; to find them, one must study some ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Mariana Mazzucato

SHORT-TERMISM AND UNPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT In the Great Depression of the 1930s, long before financialization entered the modern lexicon, Keynes observed that: [most] expert professionals, possessing judgment and knowledge beyond that ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Mariana Mazzucato [Mazzucato, Mariana]

Figure 22. PE-backed companies as a percentage of all US companies (by enterprise size)10 The recent history of the care home and water industries in the UK shows how PE ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Anthony B. Atkinson

GROWTH, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY REDUCTION Trickle-down and the distribution of consumption [Editors: This section and the one that follows were to cover the two “crucial issues … in the fight ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Sally C. Pipes

CHAPTER SEVEN THE HORRORS OF SINGLE-PAYER INSURANCE—OUTCOMES Eventually the combination of long wait times, low-quality care, overworked physicians, and barriers to treatment takes a toll on people’s health. Life under ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 15,2020 )