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The author examines the concept of regulation and discusses examples in the areas of drug regulation, consumer protection, financial institutions, environmental protection agencies, and job safety.

Liberalization of global finance & trade is increasing economic insecurity throughout the world, which is producing a backlash & ethnic conflict. Alexander uses the parallels between apartheid & global inequality to gain insight into Western dominance.

"When should government intervene in market activity? When is it best to let market forces simply take their natural course? How does existing empirical evidence about government performance inform those decisions? Brookings economist Clifford Winston uses these questions to frame a frank empirical assessment of government economic intervention in Government Failure versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance."--Jacket....

"In the last fifteen years, Japan's economy has gone from being a model of success to being an object lesson in failure. Here, William W. Grimes offers a detailed, insider's view of the key macroeconomic policies and events in contemporary Japan." "Based on scores of interviews with Japanese policy makers, this is the first political explanation of why these catastrophic policies were carried out by the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and...

A growing literature on information imperfections, credit markets and non-Walrasian outcomes poses a significant challenge to traditional approaches in economics. This text unifies key aspects of these challenges in the formulation of a new macroeconomicparadigm.

Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989. In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germany's history led to a pattern of economic...

Though Richard Nixon came to office preoccupied with foreign policy, he soon had to grapple with an economy that threatened him with political defeat. Following the advice of Milton Friedman, the president placed his initial hopes for good times in the economics of caution. But when the economy dipped into recession and cost the Republicans victory in the congressional election of 1970, Nixon turned for rescue not to his economists but to a politician,...