Better Living through Economics

✍ Scribed by John J. Siegfried (editor)

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book consists of 12 case studies—from building the foundation for eliminating the military draft in 1973 to implementing the Pension Reform Act in 2006—that demonstrate how economic research has improved economic and social conditions over the past half century by influencing public policy decisions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Overview: Highlights of the Benefits of Basic Science in Economics
1. The Evolution of Emissions Trading
2. Better Living through Improved Price Indexes
3. Economics and the Earned Income Tax Credit
4. Trade Liberalization and Growth in Developing Countries
5. The Role of Economics in the Welfare- to- Work Reforms of the 1990s
6. Better Living through Monetary Economics
7. The Greatest Auction in History
8. Air-Transportation Deregulation
9. Deferred- Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice
10. Economics, Economists, and Antitrust: A Tale of Growing Influence
11. Economics and the All- Volunteer Military Force
12. Public Policy and Saving for Retirement: The Autosave Features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006
Contributors
Index