ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01636.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01637.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01639.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

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The US budget deficit, and the higher interest rates it is said to cause, is blamed for depressing the economies of Europe. A former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, now Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, challenges the view that it is the result of President Reagan's tax cuts and defence build‐up. In a broadly ‘supply‐side’ analysis, he criticises Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Professor Martin Feldstein, Chairman (until June) of Council of Economic A

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01640.x

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年代:1984

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01641.x

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年代:1984

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Professor C. D. Foster, with two co‐authors, Richard Jackman and Maurice Perlman of the London School of Economics, concluded a massive tome in 1980 on local government financing with the estimate that only 10% or less of local government expenditure was on public goods (cf article by Erank van Dun, p. 28). Yet Whitehall politicians and local Councillors have acted for years as though the only way to confine cuts in (or raise) local expenditure was by raising rates. Simon Mabey, Westminster City Councillor, argues that charging is the long‐neglected instrument of local financ

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01642.x

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年代:1984

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People in industry and government who should know better are hounded by the fear that intensified mechanisation by computer, micro‐chip and other advanced technologies will ‘destroy’ jobs. ‘Where will the new jobs come from?’, they ask mechanically. Professor Patrick Minford retorts that their fears are largely groundless because their reasoning is superficial. The long‐term outlook for employment could be bright if government helped rather than hindered fluidity in the la

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01643.x

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年代:1984

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ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01644.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

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Ian Gow, Minister of Housing, is faced with a market massively distorted by subsidies and controls imposed at the whim of earlier politicians. Mortgage subsidies, coupled with rent controls, have virtually abolished the rented sector, and have encouraged (at the taxpayer's expense) owner‐occupancy among groups which would probably have preferred to rent. Tom Taylor, of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, argues that the current system reduces choice in housing and that the mortgage subsidy should be abolished, replaced for the less well‐off by a housing vouc

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01645.x

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年代:1984

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In the mounting criticism of ‘government failure’, a role for government is stubbornly argued by statist‐minded economists on the ground that only government can supply public goods ‐ from defence to (some) research (p. 34). Frank van Dun of the University of Ghent argues that public goods have the same disadvantages of monopoly, restriction of choice, confiscation by taxation, pressure group distortion, as non‐public goods unnecessarily supplied by government. Moreover, technical progress will make it possible to supply more public goods in the market by creating separable benefits that can be financed b

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01646.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY