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Better living through economics [electronic resource] / edited by John J. Siegfried. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010. - vi, 315 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview : highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R. Plott -- The evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H. Tietenberg -- Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J. Boskin / Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A. Moffitt -- Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O. Krueger -- The role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M. Blank -- Better living through monetary economics / John B. Taylor -- The greatest auction in history / R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie -- Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E. Bailey -- Deferred-acceptance algorithms : history, theory, practice / Alvin E. Roth -- Economics, economists, and antitrust : a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J. White -- Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J. Asch, James C. Miller III, John T. Warner -- Public policy and saving for retirement : the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears ... [et.al].


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA9A4069 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economics--Research.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HB74.5 / .B48 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 330