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Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design
by Trevor Houser , Rob Bradley , Britt Childs , Jacob Werksman and Robert Heilmayr May 2008 As political momentum surrounding climate change builds in the US, policymakers are taking a fresh look at national climate policy and American involvement in multilateral climate negotiations. And as in years past, the potential economic impac
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Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy
edited by Morris Goldstein and Nicholas R. Lardy April 2008 More than two and a half years have passed since China announced a number of changes to its foreign exchange regime in July 2005. During this period, the debate on the pros and cons of China's exchange rate policy, which had begun in earnest severa ... More >> |
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Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (hardcover plus CD-ROM)
by Kimberly Ann Elliott , Gary Clyde Hufbauer , Jeffrey J. Schott and Barbara Oegg May 2008 This is a revised edition of the classic book on this subject. It chronicles and examines 170 cases of economic sanctions imposed since World War I. Fifty of these cases were launched in the 1990s and are new to this edition. Special attention is pai ... More >> |
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The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy
Policy Analyses in International Economics 84 by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard December 2007 Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically nece ... More >> |
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Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
by Anders Åslund October 2007 The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and Russia's exp
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Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country
by William R. Cline July 2007 How will global warming affect developing countries, which rely heavily on agriculture as a source
of economic growth? William Cline asserts that developing countries have more at risk than industrial countries as global warming worsens. Using ge
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The Arab Economies in a Changing World
by Marcus Noland and Howard Pack June 2007 The tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world. Th ... More >> |
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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard March 2007 In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regi ... More >> |
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Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?
Policy Analyses in International Economics 85 by Robert Z. Lawrence January 2008 International trade accounts for only a small share of growing income inequality and labor-market displacement in the United States. Lawrence deconstructs the gap in real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth between 1981 and 2006 and estim ... More >> |