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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Economics as Politics -- Chapter 1. Economics as If People Mattered -- Chapter 2. Life on the Long Roller Coaster -- Chapter 3. The Obsolescence of New Deal Progressivism -- II. Anatomy of a Crisis -- Chapter 4. The Arithmetic of Economic Decline -- Chapter 5. The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation -- Chapter 6. The Road to Stagflation -- Chapter 7. Solving the Productivity Puzzle -- III. The Debacle of Right-Wing Economics -- Chapter 8. Right-Wing Economics: A Program for Business Ascendancy -- Chapter 9. Right-Wing Economics: The Human Costs -- Chapter 10. Right-Wing Economics: The Anatomy of Failure -- Chapter 11. The Economics of a 3 1/2-Day Weekend -- IV. The Promise of Democratic Economics -- Chapter 12. A Democratic Economy for the Year 2000 -- Chapter 13. Beyond the Twin Deficits -- Chapter 14. Making Democracy Work -- Frequently Cited References -- Notes -- Index.

Relentlessly, the wide health gap between different groups of people living in Britain continues to get even wider. This book presents new evidence (which was not available to the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the gap is widening. In particular, new geographical data are presented and displayed in striking graphical form. It challenges whether the government is concerned enough about reducing inequalities and highlights the living conditions of the million people living in the least healthy areas in Britain. It presents explanations for the widening health gap, and addresses the implications of this major social problem. In the light of this evidence the authors put forward social policies which will reduce the health gap in the future. The widening gap synthesises all the information available to date and should be read alongside the report of the evidence presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Inequalities in health, The Policy Press, 1999) and by all those concerned with reducing health inequalities. Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion series Series Editor: David Gordon, Director, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion remain the most fundamental problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. This exciting series, published in association with the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, aims to make cutting-edge poverty related research more widely available. For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page

Canada is often described as a highly urbanized country. Increasingly, however, researchers recognize that Canada is in fact a suburban nation. This recognition has sparked a new research agenda on the Canadian suburbs from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. In this collection of essays, four leading scholars of the Canadian suburbs discuss the opportunities and challenges of suburbanization for Canadian public policy. The essays include: • Canada is a Suburban Nation by David Gordon • Voices from the Edges: Policy Insights from Young Suburbanites by Markus Moos and Khairunnabila Prayitno • The Future of the Suburbs: Challenges and Opportunities in Municipal Finance by David Amborski • Suburbanization and Politics by Zack Taylor

AbstractWe examine the role of status quo bias in the ballot wording of social issues that affect the rights of minority groups. We test the salience of this framing bias by conducting an experiment that randomly assigns different ballot wordings for five policies across survey respondents. We find that status quo bias changes the percent of individuals who vote for the ballot measure by 5–8 percentage points with the least informed individuals being the most affected by status quo bias.

U.S. velocity of base money exhibits three distinct trends since 1950. After rising steadily for thirty years, it flattens out in the 1980s and falls substantially in the 1990s. This paper explores whether the observed secular movements in velocity can be accounted for exclusively by endogenous responses to changing expectations about monetary and fiscal policy. We use a model with two key features: a substitute for money in transactions and an array of assets that includes money, nominal bonds, and physical capital. The model maps policy expectations into portfolio decisions, making equilibrium velocity a function of expected future money growth, tax rates, and government spending. When expectations are estimated using Bayesian updating, simulated velocity matches the trends in actual velocity surprisingly well.