US Economic Policy in the 21st Century |
Autore | Mourmouras Alexandros |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (151 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RangazasPeter |
Collana | Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations Series |
ISBN | 3-031-36437-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Economics -- The Fiscal Crisis -- Slowing Economic Growth -- Diminishing Returns -- Slowdown in the Rate of Capital Investment -- Technological Progress to the Rescue? -- Increasing Income Inequality -- Geopolitical Tensions and Globalization -- Climate Change -- Connections -- Failed Education Policy Causes Slow Growth, Rising Wage Inequality, Economic Frustration, and the Rise of Populism -- Economic Frustration Creates Popular Resistance to Needed Reforms of Fiscal, Climate Change, and International Policies -- Current Fiscal Policies Crowd Out Private and Public Investment, Reduce Economic Growth, and Are the Primary Source of the Fis... -- Needed Policy Reforms Face Major Political Obstacles -- Political Advantage to Comprehensive Reforms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy -- The Unsustainable US Fiscal Path -- The Government Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- Sustainable Fiscal Policies -- Economic Effects of Sustainable Intergenerational Redistribution -- The Government Investment Gap -- Money Financing and the COVID-19 Recession -- Long-Run Economic Effects -- New Generational Tensions -- Public Health Policy -- The Crucial Role of Interest Rates -- Why Are Interest Rates Low? -- Will Interest Rates Remain Low? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, Does the Fiscal Crisis Disappear? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, What Should the Government Do to Exploit the Opportunity? -- Waiting for Fiscal Reforms -- Fiscal Reform Suggestions -- Aging and Healthcare Costs -- Improving Tax Compliance -- Removal of Tax Expenditures -- Tax Rates and Tax Revenue -- Efficiency-Promoting Taxation -- Consumption Taxes -- Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Consolidation -- Summary of Policy Reforms -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Human Capital Policy.
The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- Making of the Public University Corporation -- Education and Wage Inequality -- Other Candidates for Rising Wage Inequality -- Education and the Fiscal Gap -- Technological Progress and Wage Inequality -- Education Deniers -- Education and Labor Force Participation -- Human Capital Policy Reforms -- Pre-school Investments -- Vocational Training -- Less Funding and Higher Standards in Public Universities -- Student Loan Forgiveness? -- Summary of Reforms to Human Capital Policy -- References -- Chapter 4: International Economic Policy -- The Trade of Goods and Services -- Effects of Trade on the Average Household -- Total Economic Effects from US Trade -- Marginal Effects from Changes in Trade Policy -- The Welfare Effects of US Trade: Summary -- Distributional Effects from Trade -- Standard Argument for a Link Between Trade and Inequality -- Other Ways Trade May Raise Inequality -- Distributional Effects of Trade: Summary -- International Trade of Assets -- 1800-1880 The US Industrial Revolution -- 1980-Present -- Problematic Persistent Trade Deficits? -- Offshoring -- Immigration -- Economic Effects of Immigration -- Physical Capital Adjustment -- Heterogeneous Labor and Complementarity of Inputs -- Externalities and Technological Progress -- Empirical Evidence -- Summary -- Border Crises -- Policy Suggestions to Benefit More from International Activity -- Foreign Aid -- Unconditional Aid Is Not Growth-Promoting -- Domestic Conflict over Growth Policies -- Prohibitive Aid Cost -- Humanitarian Aid -- Reforming Foreign Aid -- Needed: Accountants Without Borders -- Alternative Pre-conditions for Aid -- Multilateral Aid -- A Knowledge Bank of Development Projects -- Deal with Corruption First -- Appendix -- Basic Model -- Production with Heterogeneous Labor -- What Has Caused the Rise in Inequality? -- References. Chapter 5: Climate Policy -- The Climate Change Target -- Economic Effects of Climate Change -- The Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Emissions -- The Marginal Abatement Cost of Limiting Climate Change -- The Optimal Level of Carbon Emissions -- Climate Policy in Theory -- Issues in Setting Climate Policy -- Rising Carbon Tax -- Carbon Pricing: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade -- Costs of Taxation -- International Dimension -- Carbon Border Tax -- Uncertainties and Optimal Climate Policy -- Climate R& -- D -- Climate Policy in Practice -- The Climate Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis -- What Should (Can) the USA Do? -- References -- Chapter 6: Policy Reforms Summary -- Is Government Failure Inevitable? -- Economic Challenges -- Slowing Long-Run Economic Growth -- Rising Income Inequality -- Looming Fiscal and Financial Crises -- Geopolitical Tensions -- Climate Change -- Policy Reforms -- Step 1: Human Capital Reforms -- Step 2: Resist De-Globalization -- Step 3: Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy -- Emergency Actions -- Changes in Tax Policy -- Raising the Tax Base -- Cutting Government Spending -- References -- Index. |
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The Weatherization Assistance Program / / Sherwyn L. King and Dally R. Griffiths, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Collana |
Energy Policies, Politics and Prices
Laws and Programs |
Soggetto topico |
Economic assistance, Domestic - United States
Poor - Energy assistance - United States Energy consumption - United States - Costs |
ISBN | 1-62081-750-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155047203321 |
New York : , : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., , 2012 | ||
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What price economic growth? / edited by K. Knorr and W. J. Baumol |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Englewood Cliffs (N. J.) : Prentice-Hall, 1961 |
Descrizione fisica | XI, 174 p. ; 21 cm |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Collana | Spectrum books |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Titolo uniforme | |
Record Nr. | UNIPARTHENOPE-000013346 |
Englewood Cliffs (N. J.) : Prentice-Hall, 1961 | ||
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Who cares? [[electronic resource] ] : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age / / Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs |
Autore | Newman Katherine S. <1953-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | JacobsElisabeth S. <1977-> |
Soggetto topico | Economics - United States - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-53157-3
9786612531576 1-4008-3468-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Devoted to the Common Good? -- 1. Dissent and the New Deal -- 2. Warring over the War on Poverty -- 3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age -- 4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458991003321 |
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Who cares? [[electronic resource] ] : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age / / Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs |
Autore | Newman Katherine S. <1953-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | JacobsElisabeth S. <1977-> |
Soggetto topico | Economics - United States - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-282-53157-3
9786612531576 1-4008-3468-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Devoted to the Common Good? -- 1. Dissent and the New Deal -- 2. Warring over the War on Poverty -- 3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age -- 4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792465603321 |
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Who cares? [[electronic resource] ] : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age / / Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs |
Autore | Newman Katherine S. <1953-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | JacobsElisabeth S. <1977-> |
Soggetto topico | Economics - United States - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-282-53157-3
9786612531576 1-4008-3468-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Devoted to the Common Good? -- 1. Dissent and the New Deal -- 2. Warring over the War on Poverty -- 3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age -- 4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822304303321 |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 | ||
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Why government succeeds : and why it fails / Amihai Glazer, Lawrence S. Rothenberg |
Autore | Glazer, Amihai |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge (Mass.), : Harvard University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | XII, 204 p. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Rothenberg, Lawrence S. |
ISBN | 0-674-00466-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990007376360403321 |
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Cambridge (Mass.), : Harvard University Press, c2001 | ||
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Wrong way : how privatisation and economic reform backfired / / edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-74382-060-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511344303321 |
Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] | ||
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Wrong way : how privatisation and economic reform backfired / / edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
ISBN | 1-74382-060-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793170203321 |
Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] | ||
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Wrong way : how privatisation and economic reform backfired / / edited by Damien Cahill and Phillip Toner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.973 |
ISBN | 1-74382-060-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813468603321 |
Carlton, Vic : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, , [2018] | ||
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