This analysis of US and Japanese negotiating tactics constitutes a guide to effective political management and consensus-building within each country. The study also accounts for the ways in which issues arise, the channels through which they are negotiated, and the effect of actions in one system on decisionmaking in the other.
In this revised and expanded version of the Godkin Lectures presented at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University in April 1974, Arthur M. Okun explores the conflicts that arise when society's desire to reduce inequality would impair economic efficiency, confronting policymakers with "the big tradeoff".
This is the thirty-fifth volume in the Brookings Studies of Government Finance series. It includes four essays: "Analytical Foundations of Fiscal Policy""; "The Incidence and Economic Effects of Taxation""; "Public Expenditure Budgeting""; and "State-Local Finance and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations"".
Examines the origins, policies, operations, and impact of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the other members of the World Bank group: the International Finance Corporation, the International Development Association,and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
Presents a theory of economic development very different from the "stages of growth" hypothesis or strategies emphasizing foreign aid, trade, or regional association. Leaving these aside, the author suggests a "bootstrap" approach in which successful development would depend largely on policy choices made by national authorities in the developing ......
Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why? President Nixon assigned the task of proposing reforms to his Advisory Council on Executive Organization. The object of both the Council's report and this paper is to ......
How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of our citizens? In this book, Alice M. Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decision making in the ......
