evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and … competition to flourish. The authors (two of whom were architects of international ICT policy reforms in the 1990s) discuss this … innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping …

competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn …

such topics as the effect of euro zone expansion on European Central Bank monetary policy making; using the euro as an … policy in a direct democracy framework; detailed sector analysis using a computable general equilibrium model of the world …

. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with … reform, and fiscal response to a demographic shock; the feasibility of PAYG reforms in the United States and the competition …

. Then during the Reagan era, American policy changed. The definition of laissez-faire shifted from "Do it your way" to an …

connecting citizens' preferences to political action and policy choices at the EU level? The contributors to this CESifo volume … policy, alternative methods for choosing an EU president, and the role of such direct democracy institutions as referenda and …

Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues … regulatory scheme, no book has cogently explained the intricacies of telecommunications competition policy in the Internet age …Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important …

of more microscopic policies that attack the problem at the scale at which actual policy decisions are made. Microscopic … developing the themes of the book, the authors illustrate them by examining some areas of urban transport policy that have been … neglected by the macroscopic approach. These include downtown parking policy, the encouragement of bicycling, the staggering of …