Reacting to the Spending Spree
Policy Changes We Can Afford
Published on 1. September 2013
173 pages
978-0-8179-3003-5 (ISBN)
Description
A team of expert contributors analyze the near- and long-term implications of efforts by both the Obama and Bush administrations to fix the current financial crisis. They examine a range of issues affected by the proposed reforms, including health care, "going green," the Employee Free Choice Act, an open world economy, and more.
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08/2009
Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
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Terry Anderson, the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center, a think tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, and professor emeritus at Montana State University. Richard Sousa is senior associate director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has been at the Hoover Institution since 1990. Sousa, an economist, specializes in discrimination, labor market issues, and K-12 education.
Content
- Front Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction - Terry L. Anderson and Richard Sousa
- 1. Wrong Incentives from Financial System Fixes - Stephen H. Haber and F. Scott Kieff
- 2. Prudential Bank Regulation: What's Broke and How to Fix It - Charles W. Calomiris
- 3. A Not-So-New Direction for Tax Policy - Kevin A. Hassett
- 4. How Not to Invent a Patent Crisis - F. Scott Kieff and Henry E. Smith
- 5. At What Price, Green? - Terry L. Anderson and Gary D. Libecap
- 6. What's Wrong with the Employee Free Choice Act? - Richard A. Epstein
- 7. Health Care One More Time - Richard A. Epstein
- 8. A Mad Scramble for Infrastructure Dollars - James L. Huffman
- 9. Defending an Open World Economy - Jagdish Bhagwati
- Contributors
- Index
