Economic Policy
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 | 2016-03-01 | Author:Arthur R. Kroeber [Kroeber, Arthur R.]

What Is the Importance of the “One-Child Policy”? As a population control measure, the significance of the “one-child policy” is far less than is generally believed. The major decline in ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Paul Tucker [Tucker, Paul]

That truly independent agencies need clear objectives flows from the central argument of this book that, under certain conditions, delegation-with-insulation can be squared with our deepest political values. Vague, indeterminate, ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Daniel Béland & André Lecours & Gregory P. Marchildon & Haizhen Mou & M. Rose Olfert

Descriptive statistics on regional inequality and equalization payment effects This section turns to some simple descriptive data concerning equalization payments in Canada from 1980–81 to 2015–163 fiscal year, including payment ...
( Category: Canadian January 19,2020 )