Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

The unsatisfactory performance of the United States economy during the 1970s generated considerable debate over potential new directions for economic policy. This volume, the result of the second Wharton/Reliance Symposium held in May 1983, presents and analyzes a range of economic policy options. The focus of the volume is on potential policy remedies for the economic problems of slow real output and productivity growth.Given the range of issues covered and the alternative viewpoints presented, this collection does not search for an overall policy consensus. To focus on consensus would have required narrowing both the subject matter and the distinctive viewpoints that are presented here. The result is an open discussion of a set of existing and innovative policy options.Contributors include Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State; Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein, Lester C. Thurow, Professor of Economics and Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senator Alan Cranson; Alfred E. Kahn, Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability under President Carter; William W. Winpisinger, International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; and Justine Farr Rodriguez, Senior Economist with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, among many others.

General

Imprint:	University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1984
First published:	1984
Editors:	Michael L Wachter • Susan M Wachter
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	494
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8122-7923-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics
LSN:	0-8122-7923-9
Barcode:	9780812279238

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