LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert e litan

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert e litan

  • Need for Speed
    Hal J. Singer / Robert E. Litan
    'The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and Hal Singer argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies and rules are inhibiting investment in the telecom industry, specific...
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    32,05 €

  • Financial Privacy, Consumer Prosperity, and the Public Good
    Fred H. Cate / Michael Staten / Robert E. Litan
    'A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publicationAmerican consumers have become accustomed to obtaining instant credit. The process requires that credit bureaus have easy access to sensitive financial information about individuals, compiled largely without their consent. This report examines the debate surrounding the role of the states in regulating ...
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    16,00 €

  • None of Your Business
    Peter P. Swire / Robert E. Litan
    'The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack ''adequate'' protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, ...
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    34,18 €

  • Growth with Equity
    Gary Burtless / Martin Neil Baily / Robert E. Litan
    For nearly two decades the U.S. economy has been plagued by two disturbing economic trends: the slowdown in the growth rates of productivity and average real wages and the increase in wage and income inequality. The federal budget is in chronic deficit. Imports have far exceeded exports for more than a decade. American competitiveness has been a source of concern for even longe...
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    31,67 €

  • Charting a Future for the Civil Jury System
    Robert E. Litan
    'Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. Many now question the ability of lay jurors to decide increasingly complex technica...
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    15,68 €

  • The Future of American Banking
    James R. Barth / R.Dan Brumbaugh / Robert E. Litan
    The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering in public view since at least the early 1980s when commercial bank loans to lesser developed countries (LDCs) began to default. The difficulties began to boil at the end of the decade when the prospec...
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    241,06 €

  • Saving Free Trade
    Robert E. Litan / Robert Lawrence
    American Supporters of free trade are on the defensive. Record U.S. trade deficits are fueling demands from industry, Congress, and the public for tariffs, import quotas, and other protectionist measures that could reverse America’s long-standing commitment to open markets and sacrifice much of the economic progress experienced in recent years. In Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic...
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    29,50 €