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Regulation in the States

Paul Teske

• Hardcover | Engels
• Deregulation continues to be a hot-button issues in the United States. While the national debates rage, however, regulation at the state level still f... Lees meer

No Slack

Michael S Barr

• Paperback | Engels
• The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mains... Lees meer

Social Security

• Paperback | Engels
• Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--... Lees meer

The Myth of Global Chaos

Yahya M Sadowski

• Hardcover | Engels
• When the Cold War ended in 1989, American hopes for a new world order were quickly disappointed. A new wave of violence soon erupted, engulfing places... Lees meer

Employees and Corporate Governance

• Hardcover | Engels
• Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors. Negl... Lees meer

Unlocking the Bureaucrat's Kingdom

• Paperback | Engels
• Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad bal... Lees meer

Government Failure versus Market Failure

Clifford Winston

• Paperback | Engels
• A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication When should government intervene in market activity and when is it best to... Lees meer

Trends in American Economic Growth

Edward Denison

• Paperback | Engels
• The growth rate of national income has fluctuated widely in the United States since 1929. In this volume, Edward F. Denison uses the growth accounting... Lees meer

National Standards in American Education

Diane Ravitch

• Paperback | Engels
• Updating her highly acclaimed book, Diane Ravitch presents the latest information on the debate over national standards and assessments. ""Ensuring a ... Lees meer

The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

• Paperback | Engels
• Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty--defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line--over the past three de... Lees meer

Russia's Virtual Economy

Clifford G Gaddy, Barry W Ickes

• Hardcover | Engels
• Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' paradigm of the virtual economy has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia's economy. Circulated at... Lees meer

Military Engagement

Dennis C Blair

• Met spiraalrug | Engels
• The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But how can military ... Lees meer

Checking on Banks

Anne M Khademian

• Paperback | Engels
• Eager to make government work better, cost less, and be more accountable, reformers are embracing a common prescription: consolidate and downsize gove... Lees meer

Coming Up Short

Alicia H Munnell, Annika Sunden

• Paperback | Engels
• As the baby boom begins to withdraw from the labor force, ensuring a secure retirement income becomes an increasingly important issue, the number of p... Lees meer

Jfk's Forgotten Crisis

Bruce Riedel

• Paperback | Engels
• Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisi... Lees meer

Climatic Cataclysm

• Hardcover | Engels
• Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers exp... Lees meer

Performance Incentives

• Paperback | Engels
• The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and it has resurged to once again occupy a central rol... Lees meer

Low Income Homeownership

• Paperback | Engels | James A. Johnson Metro
• A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publication A generation ago little attention was focused on low... Lees meer

Growing Fairly

Stephen Goldsmith, Kate Markin Coleman

• Paperback | Engels | Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the
• Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employers The labor market in the United States faces seemingly ... Lees meer

Renminbi Internationalization

• Paperback | Engels
• Meet the next global currency: the Chinese renminbi, or the ""redback."" Following the global financial crisis of 2008, China's major monetary policy ... Lees meer

Opportunity 08

• Hardcover | Engels
• American voters say they want to hear more about the issues and less about partisan politics. An unusually wide-open presidential race presents a uniq... Lees meer

Retooling for Growth

• Hardcover | Engels | American Assembly
• Slow job growth, declining home values, a diminishing tax base, and concentrated poverty are but a few of the growing obstacles for well-established b... Lees meer

Self-Enforcing Trade

Chad P Bown

• Paperback | Engels
• The World Trade Organization--backbone of today's international commercial relations--requires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to f... Lees meer

Beyond Sweatshops

Theodore H Moran

• Paperback | Engels
• Images of sweatshop labor in developing countries have rallied opponents of globalization against foreign direct investment (FDI). The controversy is ... Lees meer