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Better living through economics /
From the Publisher: Better Living Through Economics consists of twelve case studies that demonstrate how economic research has improved economic and social conditions over the past half century by influencing public policy decisions. Economists were obviously instrumental in revising the consumer pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / John J Siegfried
- Overview: Highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R Plott
- Comment / Daniel S Hamermesh
- Comment / Daniel Newlon
- 1: Evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H Tietenberg
- Comment / Wallace E Oates
- 2: Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J Boskin
- Comment / Jerry Hausman
- 3: Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A Moffitt
- Comment / V Joseph Hotz
- 4: Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O Krueger
- Comment / Douglas A Irwin
- 5: Role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M Blank
- Comment / Nancy Folbre
- 6: Better living through monetary economics / John B Taylor
- Comment Laurence H Meyer
- 7: Greatest auction in history / R Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie
- Comment / Jeremy Bulow
- 8: Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E Bailey
- Comment / Nancy L Rose
- 9: Deferred-acceptance algorithms: history, theory, practice / Alvin E Roth
- Comment / Peter Cramton
- 9: Economics, economists, and antitrust: a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J White
- Comment / Kenneth G Elzinga
- 11: Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J Asch, James C Miller III, John T Warner
- Comment / Walter Y Oi
- 12: Public policy and saving for retirement: the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears [and others]
- Comment / Robert J Shiller
- Contributors
- Index.