Economic Policy & Development
azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-07-21 | Author:Gosta Esping-Andersen [Esping-Andersen, Gosta]

a R sq. adjusted. b t-statistics in parentheses. Source: SSIB data files For 1950 and 1977, the % aged variable is the strongest, explaining respectively 34 and 50 percent of ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Jamie Woodcock & Mark Graham

It leverages the ‘gamification’ that is a feature of many forms of work today (Woodcock and Johnson, 2018) in order to encourage people to work for an amount that may ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Tellinger, Michael [Tellinger, Michael]

A NEW WAY OF LEARNING – FOR A NEW WORLD Our approach to educating will change completely in a new social structure where the focus is on providing abundance for ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:John F. Weeks

From Myth to Reality Many politicians promote the argument that in recessionary times, when our government’s budget falls into deficit (or deeper into deficit), “belt-tightening” becomes necessary or we discover ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Charles Townshend

The case of Irish republicanism The longest-lived of them, so far, is the Irish republican movement, whose most recent armed campaign lasted thirty years, and which can confidently trace its ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Posner, Eric A.; Weyl, E. Glen; [Posner, Eric A.; Weyl, E. Glen;]

Effortless Capitalism The logic of shareholder capitalism suggests that investors wish to do as little work as possible while gaining a maximal stable return. Starting in the 1950s, economists developed ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Konings, Martijn [Konings, Martijn]

CHAPTER 9 Lineages of US Financial Governance Although the Bagehot doctrine never provided a convincing theoretical solution to the problems associated with the lender-of-last-resort function, it nonetheless still had considerable ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Patel, Kiran Klaus; [Patel, Kiran Klaus;]

BROADENING SECURITY Power to the People While many parts of the 1935 New Deal legislation only affected small pockets of society, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) had a far-reaching impact ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-06 | Author:Simon Usherwood & John Pinder

The total expenditure in the budget for 2017 was €157.9 billion, or 1.04 per cent of EU GNP. This has to remain below 1.23 per cent of GNP unless that ...
( Category: Intergovernmental Organizations January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Harvey, David; [Harvey, David;]

During the 1980s it became clear that most of China’s phenomenal growth rate was being powered from outside the SOE sector. In the revolutionary period the SOEs provided job security ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Skidelsky, Robert [Skidelsky, Robert]

Figure 36. Post-crash outcomes: Germany, Greece and Eurozone47 Figure 37. UK austerity – counterfactual medicine48 Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University calculates the cost of austerity up to 2017 as between ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Ron Formisano [Formisano, Ron]

Copyright Ed Gamble. Reprinted with permission. Part of the Virginia settlement went to reimburse state Medicaid programs, but Kentucky refused an offer to settle for $500,000 and filed its own ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Jonathan D. Ostry

FIGURE 8.1: Effect of Increased Robot Efficiency on Wages, Income, and Income Shares An increase in the efficiency of robots eventually raises wages—after twenty years—but lowers labor’s share of income. ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:George Magnus [Magnus, George]

China’s demographic dividend is banked In 2012, China’s WAP fell for the first time, by 3.45 million people, and the rate of decline is going to accelerate significantly after 2020, ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage [Scheve, Kenneth & Stasavage, David]

FRANCE The history of debates about progressive income taxation in France is a complex one. We can attribute this to the unsettled inheritance of the French Revolution. During the Revolution, ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )