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False Premise, False Promise by Sally C. Pipes
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 )
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Gosta Esping-Andersen
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 )
The Gig Economy by Jamie Woodcock & Mark Graham
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 )
The Debt Delusion by John F. Weeks
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 )
China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know? by Arthur R. Kroeber
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 )
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker
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 )
Terrorism by Charles Townshend
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 )
Radical Markets by Posner Eric A.; Weyl E. Glen;
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 )
Capital and Time by Konings Martijn
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 )
The New Deal by Patel Kiran Klaus;
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 )
The European Union by Simon Usherwood & John Pinder
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 )
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by Harvey David;
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 )
Money and Government by Skidelsky Robert
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 )
American Oligarchy: The Permanent Political Class by Ron Formisano
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 )
Confronting Inequality by Jonathan D. Ostry
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 )

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