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Intermediate Public Economics
Hindriks, Jean; Myles, Gareth D. - The MIT Press
Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy--economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics of market failure and taxation as well as recent developments in both...
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Industrial Policy for National Champions
Falck, Oliver (contributor); Gollier, Christian (contributor) - The MIT Press
chapters that examine the political economy of the decision process, and finally, offers "classical" static equilibrium …
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Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries
Santiso, Javier - The MIT Press
Politics matter for financial markets and financial markets matter for politics, and nowhere is this relationship more … apparent than in emerging markets. In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance … markets have decoupled politics and finance, in the wake of the 2008Ð2012 financial crisis many developed economies (Europe …
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Illicit Trade and the Global Economy
Storti, Cláudia Costa (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and...
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Migration and the Welfare State: Political-Economy Policy Formation
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Suwankiri, Benjarong - The MIT Press
Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the state that native-born voters would support less-generous...
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