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balancedscorecard.blogspot.com Balanced Scorecard: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
Maravilhas da Web 2.0 "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." “Trust yo... Read article
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econbrowser.com Econbrowser: What could America be good at?
I would guess that there is a declining marginal utility to regulations, with none being equally undesirable as infinite (where we are on that utility curve is a function of where we are on the income/wealth utility curve.) And yes, Chad does lack regulation in the form of a capable central gover... Read article
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taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org TaxVox » Blog Archive » More on Conservatives and the VAT
My personal preference is for no salience at all – i.e., doing the entire tax as part of the Business Income Tax. The President's comments on this are encouraging. A lot can happen between now and the release of the debt commission report. Website Posts and Comments are solely the opinion of the ... Read article
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povertyenvironment.net Air pollution | Poverty Environment Net
Collecting and sharing knowledge and experiences on poverty-environment linkages, lessons learned and best practices in responding to poverty-environment challenges. Assessing the Health Benefits of Urban Air Pollution Reductions Associated with Climate Change Mitigation (2000–2020) Read article
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nonparibus.wordpress.com Do field experiments put the method before the question? | Ceteris Non Paribus
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climateerinvest.blogspot.com Climateer Investing: The Death of IPO's and What it Means for You and The Country
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economywatch.com Fiscal Fallacies – How Developed Economies Got Stuck In A Policy Trap: Jeffrey Frankel | Economy Watch
Over the years, politicians in advanced economies have tended to favour fiscal expansion during economic booms and austerity during recessions. But while a pro-cyclical policy is understandable from a political perspective, it also explains why these economies are rarely prepared for a crisis and... Read article
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intermexfreemarket.blogspot.com THE LIBERTARIAN: WE ARE NOT A WELFARE STATE
As Jay Cost documents in Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic , the Democratic Party has become “a kind of national Tammany Hall whose real purpose is to colonize the federal government on behalf of its cli... Read article
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economistsview.typepad.com Economist's View: Private In-Equity: How Outsourcing affected Wage Standards
Finally, we found that industries and areas that were outsourcing tended to be those who historically paid better wages and benefits. This is exactly the pattern you would expect if companies outsourced primarily to cut pay for these workers—for instance to break previous implicit contracts witho... Read article
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com Commonsense & Wonder: It's government interest
As Jay Cost documents in Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic , the Democratic Party has become “a kind of national Tammany Hall whose real purpose is to colonize the federal government on behalf of its cli... Read article
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lmonasterio.blogspot.com Blog do Leonardo Monasterio: Cuba em 1959
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economix.blogs.nytimes.com Bruce Bartlett: Do Small Businesses Create Jobs? - NYTimes.com
There may be policies that would increase the number of business start-ups and aid employment this way. But an across-the-board tax cut for every small business, defined only in terms of employment, is nothing but an election-year giveaway unlikely to create any jobs whatsoever. Search Economix L... Read article
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legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com Legal History Blog: The Origins of a Book about the Origins of Judicial Elections (Or, A Switch in Time)
(After finishing the early 19th century story in 2008, I turned to the late-19th and 20th century stories). My initial reaction to former Judge Penny White's story drew me to see the relevance of the topic and inspired me to dig into the archives. But my initial reaction prevented me from seeing ... Read article
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mrswing.com Inflation, taxation, and the underground economy -- MrSwing
You Are Here: Home > Articles > Economy > Inflation, taxation, and the underground economy Inflation, taxation, and the underground economy May 16, 2010 University of Maryland Professor Boragan Aruoba (of the Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index fame) has an interesting new paper that ... Read article
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niemanwatchdog.org New research weakens case for small business tax relief
In another recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago economists Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley analyze a new data set and find that most small businesses are not the catalysts of economic growth that they are routinely portrayed to be. (See "What Do Small ... Read article
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