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Title:

Better living through economics / edited by John J. Siegfried.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

vi, 315 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Economics--Research.

Other Authors:

Siegfried, John J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Overview : highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R. Plott -- The evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H. Tietenberg -- Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J. Boskin / Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A. Moffitt -- Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O. Krueger -- The role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M. Blank -- Better living through monetary economics / John B. Taylor -- The greatest auction in history / R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie -- Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E. Bailey -- Deferred-acceptance algorithms : history, theory, practice / Alvin E. Roth -- Economics, economists, and antitrust : a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J. White -- Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J. Asch, James C. Miller III, John T. Warner -- Public policy and saving for retirement : the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears ... [et.al].

ISBN:

0674036182
9780674036185

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319493052

LCCN:

2009028098

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)