Restoring fiscal sanity

how to balance the budget

America will face persistent, annual deficits of over half a trillion dollars over the next decade. If current policies continue, these deficits will slow economic growth, reduce household incomes, and impose enormous burdens on the next generation. To address the problem, a team of Brookings ...

La democracia real

hacia el final del estado totalizador de lo público

Conflict and cooperation

institutional and behavioral economics

Allan Schmid#s innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the ...

Servicios esenciales

Educacion, Telecomunicaciones. Transporte. Gas licuado

Who should pay for Medicare?

Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that with our aging population larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can continue ...

Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...

Reforming pensions in Europe

evolution of pensions financing and resources of retirement income

Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pension in the face ...

Hacienda somos (los) tontos

el asalto PPopular al Estado

«No pagan impuestos quienes por ley están obligados, sino aquellos que carecen de capacidad política para evadirlos.» Estas palabras del profesor Francisco Comín respaldan a los autores de este libro, quienes opinan que Hacienda no somos todos, sino los tontos del país. Por dar sólo ...

Evaluación de la eficiencia del sector público

Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Las prestaciones de la Seguridad Social

teoría y práctica

The 2003 Federal Budget

Conflicting tensions

Las redes de la corrupción

la sociedad civil contra los abusos de poder

La cultura de las rentas básicas

historia de un concepto

When all else fails

government as the ultimate risk manager

ÍNDICE: 1. Introduction 2. A Primer on Risk and Its History 3. Limited Liability 4. Money 5. Bankruptcy 6. Workers' Insurance 7. Social Security 8. Product Liability Law 9. Security for All 10. The Foundations of American Risk Management Policy

Public-private partnerships

policy and experience

Few current issues in public management are as controversial as public private partnerships (PPPs). The intensity of the debate reflects the importance of the concept to the government as it focuses on its central policy objective of improving public services, and the degree of opposition ...

Evolución contemporánea del gasto público en España

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

La renta básica de ciudadanía

una propuesta clave para la renovación del estado del bienestar

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...