Interest in the value-added tax (VAT), a form of sales tax on consumption, will increase as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets for deficit reduction become increasingly difficult to achieve through budget cuts. This monograph describes the implementation and economic effects of the VAT.

The author analyzes price controls from the Federal Power Commission.

Two achievements--up the poor and animating civil society--are powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.

Today's knowledge-based economy requires an entirely new system of assessing the value of companies--a system tapping the vast communication capabilities of the Internet.

This study examines one proposal to increase federal standard on state unemployment insurance benefits.

This monograph is a critical and constructive response to the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision for reforming international bank capital standards.

Contributors discuss proposals the legislative veto, the regulatory budget, mandatory applications of cost-benefit analysis, and the Carter administration's regulatory reform initiatives.

The inexorable rise in health care costs, despite elaborate regulatory attempts to check it, had led to new proposals for market reforms using incentives to change the behavior of both consumers and providers. The sixteen chapters of this volume examine all aspects of these proposals.

Policymakers and observers address taxation, spending, the budget deficit, and policy formation and implementation.

This volume presents the papers and proceedings of a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute to assess the major challenges facing the essentially liberal international economic order and to discuss proposals for reforming the structure and operation of the system.