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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Brian C., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.