What is included with this book?
Global Warming | |
Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and What They Imply About Action | |
Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy | p. 13 |
A New Agenda for Global Warming | p. 22 |
A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol | p. 28 |
The International Economy | |
Divergent Views on the Coming Dollar Crisis | p. 39 |
U.S. Offshoring: Small Steps to Make It Win-Win | p. 43 |
Advance Market Commitments: How to Stimulate Investment in Vaccines for Neglected Diseases | p. 52 |
Should We Still Support Untrammeled International Capital Mobility? Or Are Capital Controls Less Evil Than We Once Believed? | p. 62 |
Economics of the Iraq War | |
The Economic Cost ofthe Iraq War | p. 73 |
The High Cost of the Iraq War | p. 80 |
Fiscal Policy | |
Sense and Nonsense About Federal Deficits and Debt | p. 87 |
Government Deficits and the Deindustrialization of America | p. 99 |
Social Security | |
Confusions About Social Security | p. 109 |
The Many Definitions of Social Security Privatization | p. 120 |
The Virtues of Personal Accounts for Social Security | p. 127 |
Could Social Security Go Broke? | p. 136 |
Tax Reform | |
A Broader Perspective on the Tax Reform Debate | p. 141 |
Tax Reform: Time for a Plan C? | p. 153 |
Taxes on Investment Income Remain Too High and Lead to Multiple Distortions | p. 161 |
Progressive Consumption Taxation as a Remedy for the U.S. Savings Shortfall | p. 170 |
Social Policy | |
Was Welfare Reform Successful? | p. 185 |
Cutting the Safety Net One Strand at a Time | p. 194 |
The Choose-Your-Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving | p. 203 |
Should, the Government Rebuild New Orleans or Just Give Residents Checks? | p. 209 |
Does College Still Pay? | p. 21 |
How to Deal with Terrorism | p. 226 |
The Death Penalty | |
The Economics of Capital Punishment | p. 237 |
On the Economics of Capital Punishment | p. 241 |
The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence | |
Reply to Donohue and Wolfers on the Death Penalty and Deterrence | p. 257 |
Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty | p. 261 |
Reply: The Death Penalty Once More | p. 264 |
Real Estate | |
Long-Term Perspectives on the Current Boom in Home Prices | p. 269 |
The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble | p. 288 |
What to Do About Fannie and Freddie? | p. 296 |
Index | p. 305 |
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