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  • Market Corrections Not Government Interventions
    Clifford Winston
    The choice of whether to recommend a market solution or a government intervention to address an economic or social problem is the eternal issue of public policy analysis. Throughout the decades, academics, policymakers, and the public have alternated between market-friendly and market-skeptical perspectives. But do these shifting views accurately reflect our knowledge about mar...
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    56,04 €

  • Revitalizing a Nation
    Clifford Winston / Jia Yan
    Revitalizing A Nation: Competition and Innovation in the US Transportation System argues that it would be far more efficient and equitable if US policymakers prioritized greater competition and innovation instead of relying on taxpayer-funded spending to significantly improve the transportation system. ...
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    121,52 €

  • Revitalizing a Nation
    Clifford Winston / Jia Yan
    Revitalizing A Nation: Competition and Innovation in the US Transportation System argues that it would be far more efficient and equitable if US policymakers prioritized greater competition and innovation instead of relying on taxpayer-funded spending to significantly improve the transportation system. ...
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    50,96 €

  • Gaining Ground
    Clifford Winston
    Focusing on ways that markets work with, rather than against, governments to enhance public welfare.Current public attitudes toward markets are at a low point in the wake of the Great Recession and the growth in income inequality that began in the 1970s. However, in this book, noted Brookings economist Clifford Winston argues that it is a serious mistake to overlook that market...
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    45,84 €

  • Trouble at the Bar
    Clifford Winston / David Burk / Jia Yan
    Deregulating the legal profession will benefit society by improving access to legal services and the efficacy of public policies.Deregulating the legal profession, the authors argue, would allow more people to provide a variety of legal services without jeopardizing their quality, reduce the cost of those services, spur competition and innovation in the private sector, and incr...
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    46,05 €

  • First Thing We Do, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers
    Clifford Winston / Robert W. Crandall / Vikram Maheshri
    'Not many Americans think of the legal profession as a monopoly, but it is. Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law for nearly twenty-five years, would likely not have been allowed to practice today. Without a law degree from an American Bar Association–sanctioned institution, a would-be lawyer is allowed to practice law in only a few states. ABA regulations also prevent even l...
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    34,84 €

  • Enforcing Pollution Control Laws
    Clifford S. Russell / William J. Vaughn / Winston Harrington
    Economic models are used to show the extent of the difficulties involved in monitoring and enforcing pollution control laws on a continual basis. The authors make several recommendations for policy change. They also show that high rates of compliance can be achieved within tight budget constraints.Originally published in 1986 ...
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    227,47 €

  • Last Exit
    Clifford Winston
    'In Last Exit Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms. The case for subsequent public ownership and management of the system was weak, in his view, and here he assesses the case for privatization and deregulation to greatly improve Americans' satisfaction with their transpo...
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    39,74 €

  • Government Failure versus Market Failure
    Clifford Winston
    'When should government intervene in market activity and when is it best to let market forces take their natural course? How does the existing empirical evidence about government performance guide our answers to these questions? In this clear, concise book, Clifford Winston offers his innovative analysis—shaped by thirty years of evidence—to assess the efficacy of gov...
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    29,50 €

  • Alternate Route
    Chad Shirley / Clifford Winston
    'Urban transportation problems abound across America, including jammed highways during rush-hours, deteriorating bus service, and strong pressures to build new rail systems. Most solutions attempt either to increase transportation capacity (by building more roads and expanding mass transit) or to manage existing capacity (through HOV restrictions, exclusive bus lanes, and emplo...
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    32,16 €

  • Road Work
    Carol A. Evans / Clifford Winston / Kenneth A. Small
    'America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. The only consensus that seems to have emerged is that public spending must be increased.Improving our highway system and its financing will not ...
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    29,52 €

  • Economic Effects of Airline Deregulation
    Clifford Winston / Steven Morrison
    In 1938 the U.S. Government took under its wing an infant airline industry. Government agencies assumed responsibility not only for airline safety but for setting fares and determining how individual markets would be served. Forty years later, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 set in motion the economic deregulation of the industry and opened it to market competition. This s...
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    29,50 €