Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth / Susan M. Wachter, Michael L. Wachter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wachter, Michael L., Editor.

Wachter, Susan M., Editor.

Wharton School.

Reliance Group.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States.

United States--Economic policy--1981-1993.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States--Economic policy--1971-1981.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The focus of the volume is on potential policy remedies for the economic problems of slow real output and productivity growth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Participants

Preface

THE SETTING FOR A PRO-GROWTH STRATEGY: AN INTRODUCTION

1. RESPONSES TO THE SLOWDOWN IN GROWTH

2. REMOVING STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO GROWTH

3. THE ECONOMIC POLICY FAILURE OF THE PAST AND A POLICY AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE

4. THE GOVERNMENT DEBTIMPOSED CEILING ON ECONOMIC GROWTH

5. WHY LABOR UNIONS DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY

6. THE NEED FOR A LONGTERM PERSPECTIVE IN GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONS

7. THE TRAINING COMPONENT OF GROWTH POLICIES

8. TAX POLICY AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EFFECTS ON LABOR POLICY

DISCUSSANTS

SUMMARY REPORT

9. THE NEED FOR NEW PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POLICIES

10. THE WORK ETHIC AND ECONOMIC VITALITY

11. SAVING IN THE U.S. ECONOMY

12. INVESTMENT, TAXATION, AND GROWTH

13. MANAGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DEFICIT IN THE 1980s

14. USING MONETARY CONTROL TO DAMPEN THE BUSINESS CYCLE: A NEW SET OF FIRST PRINCIPLES

15. INTERNATIONAL BANKING: VULNERABILITY AND CRISIS

16. IN SEARCH OF AN OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO FOR THE 1980s

17. THE ROLE OF INCREASED INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH

18. FOREIGN POLICY AND ECONOMICS

19. DO WE NEED AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY?

ROUNDTABLE

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512808209

1512808202

OCLC:

979729777