Enhancing Productivity and Innovation in a Globalizing World
In recent years the Russian government, concerned about sustaining its economic performance, has sought to promote more diversified and broader economic growth beyond the profitable natural-resource sector.
How can education protect and strengthen democracy? In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system-already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic-to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction ......
Rules-Based Policy Options for Addressing the Federal Fiscal Crisis
Can the Debt Growth be Stopped? explores new fiscal rules introduced in OECD countries to determine if new fiscal rules should be enacted in the United States. The centerpiece of the study is analysis of fiscal rules using a dynamic simulation model.
Rules-Based Policy Options for Addressing the Federal Fiscal Crisis
Can the Debt Growth be Stopped? explores new fiscal rules introduced in OECD countries to determine if new fiscal rules should be enacted in the United States. The centerpiece of the study is analysis of fiscal rules using a dynamic simulation model.
After a decade or more of trying, US institutions have not mastered a variety of problems - the budget deficit, the trade imbalance, and energy insecurity - that threaten society's general interest in an economic future as bright as its past. This book argues that the problem is inherently and substantially institutional and discusses the ......
How can we work together to understand the rise of obesity and reverse its related diseases and societal impacts? Obesity is a complex condition that increases a person's risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other life-threatening conditions. Contrary to prevailing notions that it results solely from a person's diet ......
Rather than considering contemporary culture in light of secularization, much of the Western Church operates with a degree of nostalgia. This book constitutes a decisive missiological intervention calling for renewed appraisal of contemporary Christian proclamation.
One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure.
