Public policy-making

Politics & Social Sciences

Anderson, James E.

Politics & Government

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Public Policy-Making by Anderson, James E.. 8vo. 3rd ed., 2nd pt

Public Policy-Making

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

This study of the government and politics of Texas -- its institutions, processes, and people -- presents a clear and concise portrait of essential information punctuated with current examples and short case studies. Interesting portraits of governors and cartoons by Neil Caldwell, topics of current concern, legislative reform and reapportionment, parties and interest groups, constitutional revision, administrations changes, elections, the Sharpstown scandals, and property taxes and public education. Published in 1975.

Texas politics: An introduction

Harper&Row

Texas Politics: An Introduction

Murray, Richard W.

Farley, Edward L.

HarperCollins, Publishers

Texas politics: an introduction

Political science text book. High school to early college level.

Harpercollins College Div

James Anderson has been a singular force in the research on tariffs versus quotas. In this book he demonstrates that in most reasonable circumstances, quotas are an inferior trade policy relative to import tariffs. He presents substantive new work on tariffs and quotas in imperfect competition and provides a better understanding of quotas and protection policies generally.  In the current debate about protectionism, free trade, and "fair trade," Anderson's conclusions fly in the face of congressional approval of import quotas as a strategy to improve American life. While he does not advocate protectionism, he shows that import quotas and tariffs are far from equivalent, illustrating the efficiency of tariffs with case studies of specific commodities and products such as cheese and other milk products, and textiles.  Anderson makes an original contribution to the treatments of tariffs and quotas by creating a general presumption in favor of tariffs when protection is unavoidable, and provides a useful integrated perspective on the large tariffs versus quotas literature.  James E. Anderson is Professor of Economics at Boston College.

The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas

Business & Money

Economics

Mit Pr

Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy (The Mit Press)

Proposing new theoretically sound indexes for measuring trade restrictiveness, with empirical results that show their application.
A country's stance on international trade is an important component of its economic welfare. Yet relatively little theoretical attention has been paid to developing accurate methods to assess trade policies, leaving practitioners and policy makers with ad hoc solutions that lack theoretical foundation. In this book, James Anderson and Peter Neary present a new approach to gauging trade restrictiveness. Extending the standard theory of index numbers that apply to prices, output, or productivity, Anderson and Neary develop index numbers that apply directly to policy variables. Their theoretical work builds on, and extends, the standard theory of policy reform in open economics; their empirical findings illustrate how the new indexes can be applied and show the resulting difference in the assessment of trade restrictiveness. Thus their book will be of interest to both theorists and practitioners.
After giving a nontechnical introduction to the topic, which includes a discussion of the theoretical and practical failings of other methods of measurement, Anderson and Neary propose two new indexes, the welfare-equivalent uniform tariff and the import-volume-equivalent uniform tariff, and present the theoretical foundation for these methods. The empirical work that follows applies the new approach to a range of issues, including the trade restrictiveness of domestic distortions and the use of a computable general equilibrium model to calculate the proposed measures of trade restrictiveness.

Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy

Neary, J. Peter

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