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While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state and local officials and bodies who are generally providing education, protecting the environment, caring for AIDS patients, financing affordable housing, and putting police and firefighters on the streets.

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While nearly everyone in the United States pays careful attention to the federal government in Washington, it is the state and local officials and bodies who are generally providing education, protecting the environment, caring for AIDS patients, financing affordable housing, and putting police and firefighters on the streets.

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This work offers an introduction to the economics of the public sector. It examines the economic framework, public expenditure and finance, budgets and borrowing, industry and public investment, and management of the economy.

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A collection of articles on financial and investment issues in emerging capital markets.

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Focuses on the interplay between model specification, data collection, and econometric testing of dynamic asset pricing models. This book includes the econometric methods used in analyzing financial time-series models, and the goodness-of-fit of preference-based and no-arbitrage models of equity returns and the term structure of interest rates.

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A SIMPLE VIEW OF THE MOST COMMON TERMS USED WITHIN THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS MARKETPLACE

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The IRS is big, bad, and out of control as the recent scandal shows. Grover Norquist has been taking the IRS to task for years, he fights for and believes the IRS should leave us alone

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A provocative critique of America's cash money system and a powerful argument for replacing it with a cashless new system of federal electronic currency.

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Sudweeks concludes that equity market development must be part of an overall financial development program, that equity market development is a complex, but somewhat predictable activity, and that successful equity market development requires a long-term commitment on the part of governments and key players.

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It does not attempt to cover the entire body of economic theory, but rather presents those elements of theory most relevant to courses in public economics and public policy in such programs as public administration, policy analysis, health planning, environmental management, urban affairs, and urban planning.

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It does not attempt to cover the entire body of economic theory, but rather presents those elements of theory most relevant to courses in public economics and public policy in such programs as public administration, policy analysis, health planning, environmental management, urban affairs, and urban planning.

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Addressing the chronic underestimation of capital and operating costs in urban transportation projects, this book provides a detailed analysis of the cost estimating process using case studies from three U.S. cities and outlines a practical framework for this process.

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A revision of the author's thesis, University of Michigan, 1975.

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The first edition of Richard Wolf's volume was written during the infancy of the field of evaluation. A new chapter surveys the contemporary scene in educational evaluation: the development of evaluation;

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Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy. Despite this, the status of experimental economics remains controversial. This title offers an integrated look at the nature and reliability of claims based on experimental research.

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To clarify the issues in estate and gift taxation, a conference was held at the Brookings Institution where a group of experts reviewed the major controversial issues, analyzed the provisions of the present law, and clarified differences of opinion on this part of the tax system.

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The federal income tax exemption for state and local government securities has been a controversial issue for many years. Proponents argue that elimination of the tax exemption would make the cost of borrowing money to many state and local governments prohibitive.

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Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted primarily in the publication of individual financial and administrative records, sometimes with analysis. Dr. Shaw's study is the first effort to use all the available records concerning an individual province, synthesizing them into