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    Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save Our Democracy

    by Robert Litan ...
    Adopting a simple education reform to restore civil discourse and transform American societyIn this era of extreme political polarization, it's tempting to believe nothing can be done to heal a nation that is so obviously divided and led by dysfunctional politicians.But there is a relatively simple and powerful way to begin the healing, and at the same time prepare the next generations of leaders ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Verdict

    Assessing the Civil Jury System

    by Robert E. Litan ...
    The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack. Many question the ability of lay jurors to decide complex scientific and technical questions that often arise in civil suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Better Capitalism

    by Robert E. Litan ...
    In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. This welcome book cuts through the chatter and offers a detailed, nonideological, and practical blueprint to restore the vigor of the American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Finance for the 21st Century

    by Robert E. Litan ...
    As recently as thirty years ago, Americans lived in a financial world that today seems distant. Investment and borrowing choices were meager: virtually all transactions were conducted in cash or by check. The financial services industry was heavily regulated, as an outgrowth of the Depression, while an elaborate safety net was constructed to prevent a repeat of that dismal episode in American ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Going Digital!

    by Robert E. Litan, William A. Niskanen ...
    The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those benefits are to be fully realized, policymakers in the U.S. and abroad must rethink some fundamental premises about how economic activity has traditionally been governed. Should we continue to regulate industries the way we have in the past? Does the digital age require a new ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD

  • Moving Money

    The Future of Consumer Payments

    Edited by Robert E. Litan, Martin Neil Baily ...
    Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with zeroes and ones-digital entries on credit and debit cards, or electronic messages sent over the Internet. In Moving Money, distinguished analysts explore this trend, its development and likely future, and the ramifications of this transformation.This is a book about money as a medium of exchange-in the past, in the present, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Need for Speed

    A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century

    by Robert E. Litan, Hal J. Singer ...
    The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and Hal Singer argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies and rules are inhibiting investment in the telecom industry, specifically in fast broadband ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Trillion Dollar Economists

    How Economists and Their Ideas have Transformed Business

    by Robert Litan ...
    Narrated by Chris Ruen ...
    Series series Bloomberg

    Unabridged

    14 hours 53 min

    Economists do much more than explain how economies do or should work. In many cases, their ideas have helped new and established firms launch new businesses or develop different ways of making money. In other cases, their ideas have shaped government policies, which in turn, have either created opportunities for new business ideas, or have had powerful impacts on the landscape on which firms ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Living Standards

    Threats and Challenges

    Edited by Robert E. Litan, Robert Z. Lawrence, Charles L. Schultze ...
    American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.S. economy has been for some years now, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, the slowdown in the growth of living standards. This decline began in the early 1970s, was masked by a resort to overseas borrowing in the early 1980s, and now threatens to get worse in the years immediately ahead as the foreign debt bills ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Assessing Bank Reform

    FDICIA One Year Later

    Edited by George G. Kaufman, Robert E. Litan ...
    The last decade has been both traumatic and revolutionary for the U.S. banking industry. In late 1990 and early 1991, the outlook for the banking industry and even the federal insurance fund that backs most of its deposits looked especially bleak. Several independent analysts, congressional watchdog agencies, and the federal government itself warned that the large number and size of bank failures ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Liability

    Perspectives and Policy

    Edited by Robert E. Litan, Clifford Winston ...
    The United States has recently witnessed an explosion of personal injury lawsuits involving medical malpractice, unsafe products, and widespread environmental hazards. Jury awards and out-of-court settlements have escalated in many cases to hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the same time, premiums for liability insurance have skyrocketed. As a result, physicians have cut back services and some ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Down in the Dumps

    Administration of the Unfair Trade Laws

    Edited by Richard Boltuck, Robert E. Litan ...
    With the increasing integration of the major economies of the world, trade frictions have also increased. The Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, once scheduled for completion in December 1990, has been slowed over the issue of agricultural subsidies. The U.S.-Japanese trade relations have continued to be a source of friction between the two countries. At issue in all these disputes ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD