Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth
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Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth

  1. 536 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth

About this book

The unsatisfactory performance of the United States economy during the 1970s generated considerable debate over potential new directions for economic policy. This volume, the result of the second Wharton/Reliance Symposium held in May 1983, presents and analyzes a range of economic policy options. The focus of the volume is on potential policy remedies for the economic problems of slow real output and productivity growth.Given the range of issues covered and the alternative viewpoints presented, this collection does not search for an overall policy consensus. To focus on consensus would have required narrowing both the subject matter and the distinctive viewpoints that are presented here. The result is an open discussion of a set of existing and innovative policy options.Contributors include Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State; Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein, Lester C. Thurow, Professor of Economics and Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senator Alan Cranson; Alfred E. Kahn, Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability under President Carter; William W. Winpisinger, International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; and Justine Farr Rodriguez, Senior Economist with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, among many others.

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Yes, you can access Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth by Michael L. Wachter, Susan M. Wachter, Michael L. Wachter,Susan M. Wachter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Economic Conditions. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Participants
  3. Preface
  4. THE SETTING FOR A PRO-GROWTH STRATEGY: AN INTRODUCTION
  5. PART ONE. VIEWPOINTS ON STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH
  6. 1. RESPONSES TO THE SLOWDOWN IN GROWTH
  7. 2. REMOVING STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO GROWTH
  8. 3. THE ECONOMIC POLICY FAILURE OF THE PAST AND A POLICY AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
  9. 4. THE GOVERNMENT DEBTIMPOSED CEILING ON ECONOMIC GROWTH
  10. 5. WHY LABOR UNIONS DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
  11. 6. THE NEED FOR A LONGTERM PERSPECTIVE IN GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONS
  12. PART TWO. POLICY AREAS
  13. LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND DEMOGRAPHICS
  14. 7. THE TRAINING COMPONENT OF GROWTH POLICIES
  15. 8. TAX POLICY AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EFFECTS ON LABOR POLICY
  16. DISCUSSANTS
  17. SUMMARY REPORT
  18. Motivation and New Technologies
  19. 9. THE NEED FOR NEW PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POLICIES
  20. 10. THE WORK ETHIC AND ECONOMIC VITALITY
  21. DISCUSSANTS
  22. SUMMARY REPORT
  23. Savings and Investment
  24. 11. SAVING IN THE U.S. ECONOMY
  25. 12. INVESTMENT, TAXATION, AND GROWTH
  26. DISCUSSANTS
  27. SUMMARY REPORT
  28. Managing the Government Deficit and Business Cycle
  29. 13. MANAGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DEFICIT IN THE 1980s
  30. 14. USING MONETARY CONTROL TO DAMPEN THE BUSINESS CYCLE: A NEW SET OF FIRST PRINCIPLES
  31. DISCUSSANTS
  32. SUMMARY REPORT
  33. Economic and Financial Stability
  34. 15. INTERNATIONAL BANKING: VULNERABILITY AND CRISIS
  35. 16. IN SEARCH OF AN OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO FOR THE 1980s
  36. DISCUSSANTS
  37. SUMMARY REPORT
  38. PART THREE. THE POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL SETTING: A SUMMING-UP
  39. 17. THE ROLE OF INCREASED INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH
  40. 18. FOREIGN POLICY AND ECONOMICS
  41. 19. DO WE NEED AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY?
  42. ROUNDTABLE