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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Economics -- The Fiscal Crisis -- Slowing Economic Growth -- Diminishing Returns -- Slowdown in the Rate of Capital Investment -- Technological Progress to the Rescue? -- Increasing Income Inequality -- Geopolitical Tensions and Globalization -- Climate Change -- Connections -- Failed Education Policy Causes Slow Growth, Rising Wage Inequality, Economic Frustration, and the Rise of Populism -- Economic Frustration Creates Popular Resistance to Needed Reforms of Fiscal, Climate Change, and International Policies -- Current Fiscal Policies Crowd Out Private and Public Investment, Reduce Economic Growth, and Are the Primary Source of the Fis... -- Needed Policy Reforms Face Major Political Obstacles -- Political Advantage to Comprehensive Reforms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy -- The Unsustainable US Fiscal Path -- The Government Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- Sustainable Fiscal Policies -- Economic Effects of Sustainable Intergenerational Redistribution -- The Government Investment Gap -- Money Financing and the COVID-19 Recession -- Long-Run Economic Effects -- New Generational Tensions -- Public Health Policy -- The Crucial Role of Interest Rates -- Why Are Interest Rates Low? -- Will Interest Rates Remain Low? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, Does the Fiscal Crisis Disappear? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, What Should the Government Do to Exploit the Opportunity? -- Waiting for Fiscal Reforms -- Fiscal Reform Suggestions -- Aging and Healthcare Costs -- Improving Tax Compliance -- Removal of Tax Expenditures -- Tax Rates and Tax Revenue -- Efficiency-Promoting Taxation -- Consumption Taxes -- Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Consolidation -- Summary of Policy Reforms -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Human Capital Policy | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- Making of the Public University Corporation -- Education and Wage Inequality -- Other Candidates for Rising Wage Inequality -- Education and the Fiscal Gap -- Technological Progress and Wage Inequality -- Education Deniers -- Education and Labor Force Participation -- Human Capital Policy Reforms -- Pre-school Investments -- Vocational Training -- Less Funding and Higher Standards in Public Universities -- Student Loan Forgiveness? -- Summary of Reforms to Human Capital Policy -- References -- Chapter 4: International Economic Policy -- The Trade of Goods and Services -- Effects of Trade on the Average Household -- Total Economic Effects from US Trade -- Marginal Effects from Changes in Trade Policy -- The Welfare Effects of US Trade: Summary -- Distributional Effects from Trade -- Standard Argument for a Link Between Trade and Inequality -- Other Ways Trade May Raise Inequality -- Distributional Effects of Trade: Summary -- International Trade of Assets -- 1800-1880 The US Industrial Revolution -- 1980-Present -- Problematic Persistent Trade Deficits? -- Offshoring -- Immigration -- Economic Effects of Immigration -- Physical Capital Adjustment -- Heterogeneous Labor and Complementarity of Inputs -- Externalities and Technological Progress -- Empirical Evidence -- Summary -- Border Crises -- Policy Suggestions to Benefit More from International Activity -- Foreign Aid -- Unconditional Aid Is Not Growth-Promoting -- Domestic Conflict over Growth Policies -- Prohibitive Aid Cost -- Humanitarian Aid -- Reforming Foreign Aid -- Needed: Accountants Without Borders -- Alternative Pre-conditions for Aid -- Multilateral Aid -- A Knowledge Bank of Development Projects -- Deal with Corruption First -- Appendix -- Basic Model -- Production with Heterogeneous Labor -- What Has Caused the Rise in Inequality? -- References | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 5: Climate Policy -- The Climate Change Target -- Economic Effects of Climate Change -- The Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Emissions -- The Marginal Abatement Cost of Limiting Climate Change -- The Optimal Level of Carbon Emissions -- Climate Policy in Theory -- Issues in Setting Climate Policy -- Rising Carbon Tax -- Carbon Pricing: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade -- Costs of Taxation -- International Dimension -- Carbon Border Tax -- Uncertainties and Optimal Climate Policy -- Climate R& -- D -- Climate Policy in Practice -- The Climate Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis -- What Should (Can) the USA Do? -- References -- Chapter 6: Policy Reforms Summary -- Is Government Failure Inevitable? -- Economic Challenges -- Slowing Long-Run Economic Growth -- Rising Income Inequality -- Looming Fiscal and Financial Crises -- Geopolitical Tensions -- Climate Change -- Policy Reforms -- Step 1: Human Capital Reforms -- Step 2: Resist De-Globalization -- Step 3: Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy -- Emergency Actions -- Changes in Tax Policy -- Raising the Tax Base -- Cutting Government Spending -- References -- Index | |
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| contents | Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Economics -- The Fiscal Crisis -- Slowing Economic Growth -- Diminishing Returns -- Slowdown in the Rate of Capital Investment -- Technological Progress to the Rescue? -- Increasing Income Inequality -- Geopolitical Tensions and Globalization -- Climate Change -- Connections -- Failed Education Policy Causes Slow Growth, Rising Wage Inequality, Economic Frustration, and the Rise of Populism -- Economic Frustration Creates Popular Resistance to Needed Reforms of Fiscal, Climate Change, and International Policies -- Current Fiscal Policies Crowd Out Private and Public Investment, Reduce Economic Growth, and Are the Primary Source of the Fis... -- Needed Policy Reforms Face Major Political Obstacles -- Political Advantage to Comprehensive Reforms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy -- The Unsustainable US Fiscal Path -- The Government Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- Sustainable Fiscal Policies -- Economic Effects of Sustainable Intergenerational Redistribution -- The Government Investment Gap -- Money Financing and the COVID-19 Recession -- Long-Run Economic Effects -- New Generational Tensions -- Public Health Policy -- The Crucial Role of Interest Rates -- Why Are Interest Rates Low? -- Will Interest Rates Remain Low? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, Does the Fiscal Crisis Disappear? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, What Should the Government Do to Exploit the Opportunity? -- Waiting for Fiscal Reforms -- Fiscal Reform Suggestions -- Aging and Healthcare Costs -- Improving Tax Compliance -- Removal of Tax Expenditures -- Tax Rates and Tax Revenue -- Efficiency-Promoting Taxation -- Consumption Taxes -- Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Consolidation -- Summary of Policy Reforms -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Human Capital Policy The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- Making of the Public University Corporation -- Education and Wage Inequality -- Other Candidates for Rising Wage Inequality -- Education and the Fiscal Gap -- Technological Progress and Wage Inequality -- Education Deniers -- Education and Labor Force Participation -- Human Capital Policy Reforms -- Pre-school Investments -- Vocational Training -- Less Funding and Higher Standards in Public Universities -- Student Loan Forgiveness? -- Summary of Reforms to Human Capital Policy -- References -- Chapter 4: International Economic Policy -- The Trade of Goods and Services -- Effects of Trade on the Average Household -- Total Economic Effects from US Trade -- Marginal Effects from Changes in Trade Policy -- The Welfare Effects of US Trade: Summary -- Distributional Effects from Trade -- Standard Argument for a Link Between Trade and Inequality -- Other Ways Trade May Raise Inequality -- Distributional Effects of Trade: Summary -- International Trade of Assets -- 1800-1880 The US Industrial Revolution -- 1980-Present -- Problematic Persistent Trade Deficits? -- Offshoring -- Immigration -- Economic Effects of Immigration -- Physical Capital Adjustment -- Heterogeneous Labor and Complementarity of Inputs -- Externalities and Technological Progress -- Empirical Evidence -- Summary -- Border Crises -- Policy Suggestions to Benefit More from International Activity -- Foreign Aid -- Unconditional Aid Is Not Growth-Promoting -- Domestic Conflict over Growth Policies -- Prohibitive Aid Cost -- Humanitarian Aid -- Reforming Foreign Aid -- Needed: Accountants Without Borders -- Alternative Pre-conditions for Aid -- Multilateral Aid -- A Knowledge Bank of Development Projects -- Deal with Corruption First -- Appendix -- Basic Model -- Production with Heterogeneous Labor -- What Has Caused the Rise in Inequality? -- References Chapter 5: Climate Policy -- The Climate Change Target -- Economic Effects of Climate Change -- The Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Emissions -- The Marginal Abatement Cost of Limiting Climate Change -- The Optimal Level of Carbon Emissions -- Climate Policy in Theory -- Issues in Setting Climate Policy -- Rising Carbon Tax -- Carbon Pricing: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade -- Costs of Taxation -- International Dimension -- Carbon Border Tax -- Uncertainties and Optimal Climate Policy -- Climate R& -- D -- Climate Policy in Practice -- The Climate Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis -- What Should (Can) the USA Do? -- References -- Chapter 6: Policy Reforms Summary -- Is Government Failure Inevitable? -- Economic Challenges -- Slowing Long-Run Economic Growth -- Rising Income Inequality -- Looming Fiscal and Financial Crises -- Geopolitical Tensions -- Climate Change -- Policy Reforms -- Step 1: Human Capital Reforms -- Step 2: Resist De-Globalization -- Step 3: Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy -- Emergency Actions -- Changes in Tax Policy -- Raising the Tax Base -- Cutting Government Spending -- References -- Index |
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| spelling | Mourmouras, Alexandros Verfasser aut US Economic Policy in the 21st Century 1st ed Cham Springer International Publishing AG 2023 ©2023 1 Online-Ressource (151 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations Series Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Economics -- The Fiscal Crisis -- Slowing Economic Growth -- Diminishing Returns -- Slowdown in the Rate of Capital Investment -- Technological Progress to the Rescue? -- Increasing Income Inequality -- Geopolitical Tensions and Globalization -- Climate Change -- Connections -- Failed Education Policy Causes Slow Growth, Rising Wage Inequality, Economic Frustration, and the Rise of Populism -- Economic Frustration Creates Popular Resistance to Needed Reforms of Fiscal, Climate Change, and International Policies -- Current Fiscal Policies Crowd Out Private and Public Investment, Reduce Economic Growth, and Are the Primary Source of the Fis... -- Needed Policy Reforms Face Major Political Obstacles -- Political Advantage to Comprehensive Reforms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy -- The Unsustainable US Fiscal Path -- The Government Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- Sustainable Fiscal Policies -- Economic Effects of Sustainable Intergenerational Redistribution -- The Government Investment Gap -- Money Financing and the COVID-19 Recession -- Long-Run Economic Effects -- New Generational Tensions -- Public Health Policy -- The Crucial Role of Interest Rates -- Why Are Interest Rates Low? -- Will Interest Rates Remain Low? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, Does the Fiscal Crisis Disappear? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, What Should the Government Do to Exploit the Opportunity? -- Waiting for Fiscal Reforms -- Fiscal Reform Suggestions -- Aging and Healthcare Costs -- Improving Tax Compliance -- Removal of Tax Expenditures -- Tax Rates and Tax Revenue -- Efficiency-Promoting Taxation -- Consumption Taxes -- Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Consolidation -- Summary of Policy Reforms -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Human Capital Policy The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- Making of the Public University Corporation -- Education and Wage Inequality -- Other Candidates for Rising Wage Inequality -- Education and the Fiscal Gap -- Technological Progress and Wage Inequality -- Education Deniers -- Education and Labor Force Participation -- Human Capital Policy Reforms -- Pre-school Investments -- Vocational Training -- Less Funding and Higher Standards in Public Universities -- Student Loan Forgiveness? -- Summary of Reforms to Human Capital Policy -- References -- Chapter 4: International Economic Policy -- The Trade of Goods and Services -- Effects of Trade on the Average Household -- Total Economic Effects from US Trade -- Marginal Effects from Changes in Trade Policy -- The Welfare Effects of US Trade: Summary -- Distributional Effects from Trade -- Standard Argument for a Link Between Trade and Inequality -- Other Ways Trade May Raise Inequality -- Distributional Effects of Trade: Summary -- International Trade of Assets -- 1800-1880 The US Industrial Revolution -- 1980-Present -- Problematic Persistent Trade Deficits? -- Offshoring -- Immigration -- Economic Effects of Immigration -- Physical Capital Adjustment -- Heterogeneous Labor and Complementarity of Inputs -- Externalities and Technological Progress -- Empirical Evidence -- Summary -- Border Crises -- Policy Suggestions to Benefit More from International Activity -- Foreign Aid -- Unconditional Aid Is Not Growth-Promoting -- Domestic Conflict over Growth Policies -- Prohibitive Aid Cost -- Humanitarian Aid -- Reforming Foreign Aid -- Needed: Accountants Without Borders -- Alternative Pre-conditions for Aid -- Multilateral Aid -- A Knowledge Bank of Development Projects -- Deal with Corruption First -- Appendix -- Basic Model -- Production with Heterogeneous Labor -- What Has Caused the Rise in Inequality? -- References Chapter 5: Climate Policy -- The Climate Change Target -- Economic Effects of Climate Change -- The Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Emissions -- The Marginal Abatement Cost of Limiting Climate Change -- The Optimal Level of Carbon Emissions -- Climate Policy in Theory -- Issues in Setting Climate Policy -- Rising Carbon Tax -- Carbon Pricing: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade -- Costs of Taxation -- International Dimension -- Carbon Border Tax -- Uncertainties and Optimal Climate Policy -- Climate R& -- D -- Climate Policy in Practice -- The Climate Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis -- What Should (Can) the USA Do? -- References -- Chapter 6: Policy Reforms Summary -- Is Government Failure Inevitable? -- Economic Challenges -- Slowing Long-Run Economic Growth -- Rising Income Inequality -- Looming Fiscal and Financial Crises -- Geopolitical Tensions -- Climate Change -- Policy Reforms -- Step 1: Human Capital Reforms -- Step 2: Resist De-Globalization -- Step 3: Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy -- Emergency Actions -- Changes in Tax Policy -- Raising the Tax Base -- Cutting Government Spending -- References -- Index Rangazas, Peter Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mourmouras, Alexandros US Economic Policy in the 21st Century Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031364365 |
| spellingShingle | Mourmouras, Alexandros US Economic Policy in the 21st Century Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Economics -- The Fiscal Crisis -- Slowing Economic Growth -- Diminishing Returns -- Slowdown in the Rate of Capital Investment -- Technological Progress to the Rescue? -- Increasing Income Inequality -- Geopolitical Tensions and Globalization -- Climate Change -- Connections -- Failed Education Policy Causes Slow Growth, Rising Wage Inequality, Economic Frustration, and the Rise of Populism -- Economic Frustration Creates Popular Resistance to Needed Reforms of Fiscal, Climate Change, and International Policies -- Current Fiscal Policies Crowd Out Private and Public Investment, Reduce Economic Growth, and Are the Primary Source of the Fis... -- Needed Policy Reforms Face Major Political Obstacles -- Political Advantage to Comprehensive Reforms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy -- The Unsustainable US Fiscal Path -- The Government Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- Sustainable Fiscal Policies -- Economic Effects of Sustainable Intergenerational Redistribution -- The Government Investment Gap -- Money Financing and the COVID-19 Recession -- Long-Run Economic Effects -- New Generational Tensions -- Public Health Policy -- The Crucial Role of Interest Rates -- Why Are Interest Rates Low? -- Will Interest Rates Remain Low? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, Does the Fiscal Crisis Disappear? -- If Interest Rates Do Remain Low, What Should the Government Do to Exploit the Opportunity? -- Waiting for Fiscal Reforms -- Fiscal Reform Suggestions -- Aging and Healthcare Costs -- Improving Tax Compliance -- Removal of Tax Expenditures -- Tax Rates and Tax Revenue -- Efficiency-Promoting Taxation -- Consumption Taxes -- Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Consolidation -- Summary of Policy Reforms -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Human Capital Policy The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- Making of the Public University Corporation -- Education and Wage Inequality -- Other Candidates for Rising Wage Inequality -- Education and the Fiscal Gap -- Technological Progress and Wage Inequality -- Education Deniers -- Education and Labor Force Participation -- Human Capital Policy Reforms -- Pre-school Investments -- Vocational Training -- Less Funding and Higher Standards in Public Universities -- Student Loan Forgiveness? -- Summary of Reforms to Human Capital Policy -- References -- Chapter 4: International Economic Policy -- The Trade of Goods and Services -- Effects of Trade on the Average Household -- Total Economic Effects from US Trade -- Marginal Effects from Changes in Trade Policy -- The Welfare Effects of US Trade: Summary -- Distributional Effects from Trade -- Standard Argument for a Link Between Trade and Inequality -- Other Ways Trade May Raise Inequality -- Distributional Effects of Trade: Summary -- International Trade of Assets -- 1800-1880 The US Industrial Revolution -- 1980-Present -- Problematic Persistent Trade Deficits? -- Offshoring -- Immigration -- Economic Effects of Immigration -- Physical Capital Adjustment -- Heterogeneous Labor and Complementarity of Inputs -- Externalities and Technological Progress -- Empirical Evidence -- Summary -- Border Crises -- Policy Suggestions to Benefit More from International Activity -- Foreign Aid -- Unconditional Aid Is Not Growth-Promoting -- Domestic Conflict over Growth Policies -- Prohibitive Aid Cost -- Humanitarian Aid -- Reforming Foreign Aid -- Needed: Accountants Without Borders -- Alternative Pre-conditions for Aid -- Multilateral Aid -- A Knowledge Bank of Development Projects -- Deal with Corruption First -- Appendix -- Basic Model -- Production with Heterogeneous Labor -- What Has Caused the Rise in Inequality? -- References Chapter 5: Climate Policy -- The Climate Change Target -- Economic Effects of Climate Change -- The Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Emissions -- The Marginal Abatement Cost of Limiting Climate Change -- The Optimal Level of Carbon Emissions -- Climate Policy in Theory -- Issues in Setting Climate Policy -- Rising Carbon Tax -- Carbon Pricing: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade -- Costs of Taxation -- International Dimension -- Carbon Border Tax -- Uncertainties and Optimal Climate Policy -- Climate R& -- D -- Climate Policy in Practice -- The Climate Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis -- What Should (Can) the USA Do? -- References -- Chapter 6: Policy Reforms Summary -- Is Government Failure Inevitable? -- Economic Challenges -- Slowing Long-Run Economic Growth -- Rising Income Inequality -- Looming Fiscal and Financial Crises -- Geopolitical Tensions -- Climate Change -- Policy Reforms -- Step 1: Human Capital Reforms -- Step 2: Resist De-Globalization -- Step 3: Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy -- Emergency Actions -- Changes in Tax Policy -- Raising the Tax Base -- Cutting Government Spending -- References -- Index |
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