The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that ""iron triangles"" operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition.
Topics include Voters and Elections; The New Two-Party System; The Economic Basis of Reagan's Appeal; Incumbency and Realignment in Congressional Elections; Campaigning, Governing, and the Contemporary Presidency; The Republican Advantage in Campaign Finance; The Rise of National Parties; Institutions and Policy; New Patterns of Decisionmaking in ......
Income from capital receives uneven treatment in both the tax system and the loan markets. This affects almost every investment decision make by the individuals, business, and government and causes major disruptions in the economy. In this book C. Eugene Steuerle shows how the misallocation of capital results from the interaction of tax laws, the ......
Reform of the United States tax system has become a central political issue. Assessing Tax Reform is a concise, non-technical book to help general readers and students understand the tax reform issues Congress is now debating. Henry Aaron and Harvey Galper lay out the major alternative proposals and analyse principles of taxation that can be used ......
In 1979, after a decade of enormous increases in the price of oil, U.S. influence in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region declined sharply. Early in the year the Iranian revolution replaced the shah, the principal pro-American leader in the region, with rulers hostile to the United States and to its remaining friends around the Gulf. In December ......
America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.
Evaluates the positive and negative aspects of foreign assembly and suggests ways in which it may develop and affect the future of North-South relations. The authors examine in detail the US semiconductor industry, the first to go abroad on a large scale. They also chart the development of the semiconductor industries of Western Europe and Japan.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.
