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Dipak Mazumdar, Susan Horton, Ravi Kanbur

Издател: Economic Development Institute of The World Bank

The authors have written an overview of 19 papers in a symposium devoted to an examination of the interaction between labor markets and adjustment. The purpose of their commentary is to draw general conclusions and policy lessons and to identify areas for further research. The papers include 7 issue papers and 12 country studies (Argentina,

Robert C. Enlow, Lenore T. Ealy

Издател: Cato Institute

Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with school vouchers. By separating government financing of education from government administration of schools, Friedman argued, “parents at all income levels would have the freedom to choose the schools their children attend.” Liberty & Learning is a

Regina Herzlinger

Издател: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

What happens when the demanding consumers who nearly brought the U.S. automobile industry to its knees focus the same kinds of pressure on the industry that represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy - health care? The health organizations that combine quality, convenience, information, choices, and lower costs will be the winners in this

Lowell E. Gallaway, Richard K. Vedder

Издател: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.

Unemployment is used to justify every bigger government programs—from national industrial policies to high military expenditures to a return to New Deal-type “make work” projects. Now, this book relentlessly amasses devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment, both cyclical and secular, is government itself. The authors

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Издател: Populus

It is often assumed that there is a wide gap between eastern and western Europe, not just geographically, but also when it comes to the state of their healthcare systems. Slovakia, Poland and Hungary all emerged from the yoke of communism with state-run, state-funded systems that were highly bureaucratic, mismanaged and often corrupt. Many