SUBJECT INDEX:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS:

Contrived Competition: Richard Vietor; This book explains and tells the stories of how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

The Emergence of China: Edited by Robert Devlin; Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal; Edited by Andres Rodriguez; This pioneering volume provides a comprehensive overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience, opening new avenues for thinking about revitalizing development strategies in Latin America in the face of China's successful development and reduction of poverty. This insightful report is a must-read for analysts, policymakers, and development practitioners, not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but wherever China's presence is being felt.; Paperback 2006

Government by Contract: Edited by Jody Freeman; Edited by Martha Minow; Explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce capacities as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.; Hardcover 2009

Managed Care and Monopoly Power: Deborah Haas-Wilson; As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase in health care costs is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.; Hardcover 2003

Money for Nothing: Fred S. McChesney; The increased power of lobbyists in Washington and the excesses of campaign contributions would seem to indicate a government corrupted. But as Fred McChesney shows, payments to politicians are often made not for political favors, but to avoid political disfavor. This book, standing squarely at the intersection of law, political science, and economics, vividly illustrates the patterns of legal extortion underlying the current fabric of interest-group politics.; Hardcover 1997

Regulating a New Economy: Morton Keller; Morton Keller, a leading scholar of twentieth-century American history, describes the complex interplay between rapid economic change and regulatory policy. In its portrait of the response of American politics and law to a changing economy, this book provides a fresh understanding of emerging public policy for a modern nation.; Hardcover

The Rules of Federalism: R. Daniel Kelemen; This book examines patterns of environmental regulation in the European Union and four federal polities--the United States, Germany, Australia, and Canada. Kelemen develops a theory of regulatory federalism based on his comparative study, arguing that the greater the fragmentation of power at the federal level, the less discretion is allotted to component states. Kelemen's analysis offers a novel perspective on the EU and demonstrates that the EU already acts as a federal polity in the regulatory arena.; Hardcover 2004

Social Partnering in Latin America: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network Research Team; James E. Austin; Ezequiel Reficco; Gabriel Berger; Rosa María Fischer; Roberto Gutierrez; Mladen Koljatic; Gerardo Lozano; Enrique Ogliastri; An American supermarket and a Mexican food bank, an Argentine newspaper and a solidarity network, and a Chilean pharmacy chain and an elder care home are just a few examples of how businesses are partnering with community organizations in powerful ways throughout Latin America. The authors analyze why and how such social partnering occurs and provide a compelling framework for identifying key levers that maximize value creation for participants and society.; Paperback 2004

The Sound of the Whistle: Steven Ericson; In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation.; Hardcover 1996

The State after Statism: Edited by Jonah Levy; This book assesses the changing nature of state intervention in the economies of the affluent democracies. Against a widespread understanding that contemporary developments, such as globalization and new technologies, are pressing for a rollback of state regulation in the economy, the book shows that these same forces are also creating new demands and opportunities for state intervention. Thus, state activism has shifted, rather than simply eroded.; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

The Warping of Government Work: John D. Donahue; The divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The Warping of Government Work documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.; Hardcover 2008