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A forefront economist's retrospective on a wide variety of public policy issues, from trade and unemployment to election law and the economics of war and peace, collects articles that evaluate specific methods for using economic incentives to create positive policies.
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Niskanen (chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute) collects articles, book reviews, and speeches that he has written since 1997, plus one article on oil, war, and the economy that was written just before the 1991 Gulf War. Writing from a libertarian-right perspective that espouses "the principle of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, and peace," he addresses a wide range of topics, including research and development policy, a global warming treaty, health policy reform, employment and wages policy, the purpose of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, policy lessons from corporate scandals, the record of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the presidential candidacy of H. Ross Perot, the proposed European Union constitution, and bias against moderates in US elections. The books reviewed reflect similar interests. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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