Beautiful But Costly (Economic Paper)
by L Alan Winters and Pedro M. G. Martins
Comrades Go Private (The Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement)
The euphoria of the political revolutions of 1989 is increasingly being replaced by a sober reality: building viable economic systems and transforming state enterprises into privately owned businesses in Eastern Europe is exceedingly complicated, difficult and costly. How can Eastern Europe best pursue its reform goals? Precisely what tangible reforms should these fledgling market economies undergo? Is privatization the pancea it is claimed to be? How should the competing issues of speed vs. equ...
Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression. Washington's actions weren't the start of government distortions in the financial industry, Nicole Gelinas writes, but the natural result of 25 years' worth of such distortions. In the early eighties, modern finance began to...
Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and many foreign governments, The Chastening offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Fund during an extraordinarily turbulent period in modern economic history and at...
The Causes and Effects of Deregulation (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)
Beginning with railroad regulation in 1887 and continuing for eight decades, the U.S. Federal Government expanded its regulatory scope to cover key transportation, telecommunications and energy sectors. In the last quarter of the 20th century this long-term trend was abruptly and dramatically reversed as important sectors of the U.S. economy were deregulated. This Research Review introduces the causes and effects of this process, and the political and economic forces behind the elimination of re...
For undergraduate/graduate level courses in Bureaucracy, Public Policy, Public Administration, Urban Studies, State and Local Government, and American Government. This concise, readable text focuses on privatization at the municipal level, blending theory with practical matters, and containing real-life examples of privatization. It presents the practical arguments and theoretical frameworks for and against using privatization, summarizes the evidence on efficiency between public and private or...
Federal Acquisition Regulation Vol. 2 - Jan 2018
by Department of Defense
Interessenvermittlung Und Steuerungsproblematik Im Agrarpolitischen Netzwerk
by Jochen Fuhrer
Diese Arbeit beschreibt in allgemeinverstandlicher Form agrarpolitische Interessenvermittlungsprozesse und Steuerungsprobleme der Europaischen Union. Neben der europaischen und der bundesdeutschen Politik wird erstmals der subnationalen Implementationsebene in einem Bundesland (Hessen) systematische Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Zeitlich konzentriert sich die Untersuchung auf die Programmentwicklungen seit Mitte der 80er Jahre bis einschliesslich 1995. Auf Grundlage des Policy-Netzwerk-Ansatzes werde...
The old Russian saying of 'kto kovo' (Who will get whom?) has become 'kem skhvachena eto?' (Who has captured this?) under the new transition economy. Instead of one major figure, such as a Stalin or Lenin, vanquishing lesser personages to advance their political aims, many people are taking over corporations to increase their market domination. Their methods are no less brutal, ruthless, or corrupt. In turn, corporations are 'capturing' the state to influence legislation and regulation to their...
Computer Security Division Annual Report- 2011
by U S Department of Commerce
Decidir No Es Facil... Pero Te Ha Tocado a Ti
by Jose Antonio Rodriguez
Going beyond the usual state-centric approach to the study of the politics of neoliberal reform, Moises Arce emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction between state reformers and collective actors in society. In Market Reform in Society he helpfully focuses our attention on how various societal groups are affected by different types of reform and how their responses in turn affect the state's subsequent pursuit of reform. As a country characterized by strong state autonomy and...
Antonia Juhasz, a leading activist and expert on corporations and globalization, investigates the true state of the U.S. oil industry, uncovering its virtually unparalleled influence over our elected officials, its lack of regulatory oversight, and the highest profit rates in corporate history. She offers an immediate call to action - a formula for reining in the industry, cutting down its governmental powers, environmental destruction, and movement toward war while reducing global dependence on...
"NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by Big Government, but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state. In "Free Market Revolution, " the keepers of Ayn Rand's legacy argue that the answer lies in her pioneering philosophy of ca...