The beholden state : California's lost promise and how to recapture it /
"California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / William E. Simon, Jr.
- Introduction / Brian C. Anderson
- The politics and economics of decline
- The beholden state / Steven Malanga
- The big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm / William Voegeli
- The golden state's war on itself / Joel Kotkin
- Cali to business : get out! / Steven Malanga
- The long stall / Wendell Cox
- The pension fund that ate California / Steven Malanga
- Flatten taxes! / Arthur B. Laffer
- The radical reform that California needs / Troy Senik
- The urban fiscal crisis
- Lost Angeles / Joel Kotkin
- How the road to bell was paved / William Voegeli
- Broken windows, broken city / Steven Greenhut
- Public order
- The reclamation of skid row / Heather Mac Donald
- The LAPD remade / John Buntin
- The sidewalks of San Francisco / Heather Mac Donald
- Of energy and environment
- A crude awakening / Tom Gray
- The water wars / Victor Davis Hanson
- Immigration dilemmas
- The rainbow coalition evaporates / Steven Malanga
- The demographic revolution / Heather Mac Donald
- Education
- The worst union in America / Troy Senik
- The bilingual ban that worked / Heather Mac Donald
- The union's occupation / Ben Boychuk
- Triggering school reform in California / Ben Boychuk
- Grading the teachers / Larry Sand
- UC two / Heather Mac Donald
- The culture
- The lost art of war / Andrew Klavan
- Radical graffiti chic / Heather Mac Donald
- Tom Wolfe's California / Michael Anton
- Keep hope alive
- The silicon lining / Guy Sorman
- California, here we stay / Victor Davis Hanson.