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Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth /

The focus of the volume is on potential policy remedies for the economic problems of slow real output and productivity growth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wachter, Michael L., Wachter, Susan M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Participants
  • Preface
  • THE SETTING FOR A PRO-GROWTH STRATEGY: AN INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE. VIEWPOINTS ON STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH
  • 1. RESPONSES TO THE SLOWDOWN IN GROWTH
  • 2. REMOVING STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO GROWTH
  • 3. THE ECONOMIC POLICY FAILURE OF THE PAST AND A POLICY AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
  • 4. THE GOVERNMENT DEBTIMPOSED CEILING ON ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • 5. WHY LABOR UNIONS DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
  • 6. THE NEED FOR A LONGTERM PERSPECTIVE IN GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONS
  • PART TWO. POLICY AREAS
  • LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND DEMOGRAPHICS
  • 7. THE TRAINING COMPONENT OF GROWTH POLICIES
  • 8. TAX POLICY AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EFFECTS ON LABOR POLICY
  • DISCUSSANTS
  • SUMMARY REPORT
  • Motivation and New Technologies
  • 9. THE NEED FOR NEW PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POLICIES
  • 10. THE WORK ETHIC AND ECONOMIC VITALITY
  • DISCUSSANTS
  • SUMMARY REPORT
  • Savings and Investment
  • 11. SAVING IN THE U.S. ECONOMY
  • 12. INVESTMENT, TAXATION, AND GROWTH
  • DISCUSSANTS
  • SUMMARY REPORT
  • Managing the Government Deficit and Business Cycle
  • 13. MANAGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DEFICIT IN THE 1980s
  • 14. USING MONETARY CONTROL TO DAMPEN THE BUSINESS CYCLE: A NEW SET OF FIRST PRINCIPLES
  • DISCUSSANTS
  • SUMMARY REPORT
  • Economic and Financial Stability
  • 15. INTERNATIONAL BANKING: VULNERABILITY AND CRISIS
  • 16. IN SEARCH OF AN OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO FOR THE 1980s
  • DISCUSSANTS
  • SUMMARY REPORT
  • PART THREE. THE POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL SETTING: A SUMMING-UP
  • 17. THE ROLE OF INCREASED INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • 18. FOREIGN POLICY AND ECONOMICS
  • 19. DO WE NEED AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY?
  • ROUNDTABLE