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Pharmaceutical price regulation:
This monograph demonstrates empirically how the free-market system of drug pricing is vital to the development of new breakthrough drugs.
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Progressive consumption taxation
Alone among developed countries, the United States has no broad-based national consumption tax. Yet, economic analysis suggests that consumption taxation is superior to income taxation because it does not penalize saving and investment. The authors conclude that the U.S. income tax system should ...
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Health and the income inequality hypothesis: a doctrine in search of data
The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income-not poverty per se-is bad for people's health.
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Wealth and justice
Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as simply a 'lesser evil' whos...
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Inequality in living standards since 1980
Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But is it really that simple? In this meticulous economic study, Orazio P. Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Mario...
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Earnings inequality:
The author analyzes the change in male earnings inequality since the mid-1970s to see how much is attributable to changes in labor market opportunities and how much to changes in work choices.
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Financing entrepreneurs
This book is a collection of essays on proposals to provide tax incentives to stimulate the growth of high-technology firms.
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Distributional analysis of tax policy
This book provides numerous essays that explore ways to refine the use of tax-burden tables in making tax policy.
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The impact of labor taxes on labor supply
As the Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire in 2010, ambitious health care legislation is moving through Congress, and entitlement programs are growing at unsustainable rates, U.S. policymakers face important questions about the optimal size and scope of federal spending. The federal government fi...
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Using marginal damages in environmental policy
This technical volume makes the case that air pollution policy in the United States can be improved through consideration of both the marginal abatement costs facing regulated sources, and the marginal damages associated with their emissions. The preferred approach is a fully efficient regulatory...
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Attitudes toward economic inequality:
What do ordinary Americans make of the vast sums paid to CEOs, media anchors, sports stars, and Hollywood entertainers? Are they more sensitive than in the past to disparities in income and wealth?
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Nationalizing mortgage risk:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.
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Phake
hake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is both a fascinating firsthand account of the counterfeit drug trade and an incisive policy analysis with important ramifications for decision makers in the U.S
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The dynamic internet
The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network offers a comprehensive history of the Internet and efforts to regulate its use. University of Pennsylvania law professor Christopher S. Yoo contends that rather than engaging in prescriptive regulatory oversight,...
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Taxing consumption in a global economy
The authors consider capital inflows into the United States and the likely consequences of a simplification of the taxation of international transactions.
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Economic growth: unleashing the potential of human flourishing (values and capitalism)
In Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing, Edd S. Noell, Stephen L. S. Smith, and Bruce G. Webb make a comprehensive case for economic growth, equipping readers with an understanding of not only its pragmatic benefits but also its moral dimensions.
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Three simple principals of trade policy
The author argues that a tax on imports commensurately creates a tax on exports, and that trade imbalances reflect capital flows between countries.
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Benefit-cost analyses of social regulation
This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.
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The fiscal revolution in america
This classic study chronicles the revolution in fiscal policy that occurred in the United States between the administrations of Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy.
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A single european currency?
In September 1996, the New Atlantic Initiative convened a panel of three leading economic observers to discuss the EU's efforts to adopt a single currency.
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Pooling health insurance risks
How are the costs of health insurance premiums determined? Should costs vary according to indicators of risk? How much do premiums vary with risk? Do the healthy subsidize the unhealthy? Should public subsidies vary according to economic status and risk? This book examines these questions.
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Intergenerational transfers under community rating
The authors examine the intergenerational transfers that can be expected from a shift to community rating under a mandatory health insurance purchase requirement.
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Transition costs of fundamental tax reform
The authors of this volume challenge the common perception that the removal of old distortions from the tax system would seriously hurt segments of the economy.
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Personal savings, consumption and tax policy
This volume offers the views of 19 fiscal policy analysts well qualified to evaluate any attempt to raise national saving and domestically financed investment.
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