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Examines the shifting fortunes of economic interest groups in Washington. Gary Mucciaroni addresses such compelling questions as: Why do policymakers bestow benefits on these groups in some areas of public policy but refrain from doing so in others Why are benefits given to these industries in one period but revoked at a later time

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There will be further changes in Baltic relationships with them that are hard to predict beyond the immediate future. To be competent in Baltic matters, we have to be well informed about the critical economic and political interfaces with our neighbors in the East.

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Emphasizing each country's individual conditions, the contributors suggest that it is unusual for semi-peripheral states to move into the "core" world-economy. They present the thesis that the conditions which were necessary to achieve semi-peripheral status often prevent further advances.

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The tug of economic reality facing small economies in an open-world economy make the push coming from internal interests a real balancing act, as Worrell appreciates.

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Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations...

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"According to commonly repeated reports, wages and personal incomes have stagnated in the U.S. over the last twenty-five years for average Americans. A corollary argument asserts that the combination o"

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Thus, the author claims, the basic objective of the agricultural and rural policy has been political, not socioeconomic.

The failure of the agricultural policy, the study suggests, is rooted in the nature and role of the state.

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Examines how economic and political decentralization is affecting the development of a policy-making environment at the state level. The book examines the changing economic geography of the USA and the specific effects on the economic structure of the states.

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This powerful study suggests that strategic pragmatism has enabled Japan to use Western theories and doctrines more comprehensively and thoroughly than the West. By comparing Japan's policies and structure to patterns prevailing in major Western countries, Japan's `secret' can be translated into concepts familiar to the West.

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Finally, Part III presents a practical approach to conducting business in Mexico, which ranges from the legal requirements of opening a subsidiary, to a warning about the prevalence of corruption in Mexican society, as well as the existence of racism in Mexican culture.

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Volume I of this study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguishe

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Volume II contains basic data underlying the study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print

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Survival: The Economic Underpinnings of American National Security introduces principles of national security thinking relevant to public policy, then illustrates application of these principles in a number of policy areas including fiscal policy, healthcare, education, immigration, welfare and poverty abatement, energy, and the environment.

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A framework for macroprudential regulation that defines systemic risk and macroprudential policy, describes macroprudential tools, and surveys the effectiveness of existing macroprudential regulation.

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Writing from an interdisciplinary perspective that is both theoretical and practical, Brian Semkow analyses and discusses the scope and direction financial and capital market reform has taken in Taiwan, and its implications for existing and newly emerging financial institutions.

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Every economic system exists only to satisfy human wants, yet most systems fail to do so. Taking a keen look at the gap between goal and result, Stanley Lebergott appraises public policies relating to the U.S. distribution of income and wealth today. Part I shows that many programs have disappointed their proponents because certain basic assumptio