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Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses.

Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today.

In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security.

Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future.

Over the past fifteen years, a college education has become increasingly valuable in the labor market.

The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that "e;iron triangles"e; operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition.

Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide.

During the last decade "e;globalization"e; has become a fashion among policymakers and academics alike.

"e;We are,"e; said Supreme Court Justice William O.

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them?

Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs.

Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish.

A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.

Since 1971 competition has begun to replace regulation as a governing force in the telecommunications industry.

Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide.

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force.

Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine hat für die deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik weitreichende Konsequenzen.

Catherine Gwin examines the evolution of U.

In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly deteriorated.

The United States continues to maintain a large nuclear arsenal guided by a deterrence strategy little changed since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief.

In this book, Ed A.

If government tells dependent people how to live today, will we have a more self-reliant society tomorrow?

This report analyzes how carbon markets can be designed to help economies reach ambitious emission reduction goals and generate the financing needed to scale up climate action and build a resilient future.

The Economics of Federal Credit Programs discusses government lending, government guaranty of loans, and credit control in the United States.

Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, Institutional/Functional HistoryIn Part-Time Soldiers, Andrew Lewis Chadwick offers the first in-depth historical study of the development and evolution of modern army reserve forces.

Caring for the Disabled Elderly analyzes the major options for reforming the way long-term care is financed.

This report assesses how Indonesia is implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the subnational government (SNG) level, identifies gaps and good practices, and outlines ways to speed up progress.

One of the major architects of comprehensive tax reform has revised his widely acclaimed book on tax policy to reflect the changes brought about by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all other major changes in tax laws since 1983.

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung.

Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies.

Income from capital receives uneven treatment in both the tax system and the loan markets.

Debates about tax policy arise every year in Washington, and legislative changes occur almost as often.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, Institutional/Functional HistoryIn Part-Time Soldiers, Andrew Lewis Chadwick offers the first in-depth historical study of the development and evolution of modern army reserve forces.

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung.

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains.

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains.

The evolution of genome's modification by genetic engineering was characterized by a major technological breakthrough with the discovery of CRISPR in 2012.

The evolution of genome's modification by genetic engineering was characterized by a major technological breakthrough with the discovery of CRISPR in 2012.