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the
institutional architecture;
ing the international
the challenges
of the twenty-first
OECD?meeting
century; and the need to rebuild the public domain.
is Senior Lecturer
Lee
and Director
of the Centre

Economies

Public

HO

Public Economies

General

for Democratic
Richard

Wagner,

E. Fiscal

and

Sociology

the The

ory of Public Finance: An Exploratory

Essay. New
in Political Economy
series. Cheltenham,
Thinking
Mass.:
U.K.
and Northampton,
Elgar, 2007. Pp. x,
ISBN 978-1-84720-246-8.
228. $110.00.

JEL 2008-0110

a social-theoretic

treatment

of public
finance, which contrasts with the typical treatment of
as an
government
agent of intervention into a market
for a
economy. Discusses
contrasting architectonics
Advances

theory of public finance; property, state, and pub

two-forum societal
lic finance; state and market?a
the
within
architecture;
entrepreneurship
political

ecology of enterprises;
of political
enterprises;
ing the tax-expenditure

the economic
organization
revenue extraction?cross

divide; federalism, polycen

tric polities, and open societies; and fiscal sociology
is
and the challenge of societal agriculture. Wagner
at George
Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics

Mason

University.

index.

Bibliography;

and

of Hull.

McBride

and

Lee,

and

Structure
Simon

Liberalism,
Dordrecht:

Scope

Sixteen

xii, 270.

Pp.

and global governance

economic
European
Modell
Deutschland;

ISBN

978

in the
twenty-first century;
to
threat
the common

governance
ground?global
and Canada;
assessing
England
decentralization
nexus?patterns

Science

at

Siong and Chen, G?raldine.

Neo, Boon
Dynamic
Governance:
and
Culture, Capabilities
Embedding
in Singapore.
Hackensack,
N.J. and Sin
Change
Scientific, 2007. Pp. xix, 508. ISBN
gapore: World

JEL 2008-0112
is
and sustained in
how
created
dynamism
Explores
sector institutions that exercise the functions
public
on the
of governance,
Singapore governance
focusing
a framework for
Discusses
gover
system.
dynamic
978-981-270-694-2.

and
culture, capabilities,
insti
foundations?governance,
change; conceptual
context for development?
tutions, and capabilities;
for governance;
cultural
imperatives
establishing

nance?institutionalizing

of governance;
principles
and
implementing
learning and
adaptation?embedding

execution?developing
policy

development?recruiting,
paths;
people
innova
and retaining
leaders; process
structures
and
and
systems;
tion?creating
agile
and chal
sustaining dynamic
governance?lessons

gover
global
state power,

state

Political

renewing,

integration?the
on
stranded
and

Science

of Political

for Global

adjusting

JEL 2008-0111
the relationship
between

papers explore
state power,
and
neoliberalism,
nance.
discuss
neoliberalism,
Papers

the Centre

in the Department
of Political
Economy
Simon Fraser University.
Index.

paths;

of Government

eds. Neo
McBride,
Stephen,
Governance.
State Power and Global
2007.

is Professor

of

in the Department
of
at the University

Studies

foundations?inculcating

and

Springer,
1-4020-6219-3.

International

Director

policy
HI

Governance

Politics

in

power
the globalization
of education
and

and Nicaragua;
reform inMexico, Chile, Argentina,
in
market
neoliberalism?labor
policies
tracking
as flank
the OECD
area; social economy policies
for neoliberalism?transnational
ing mechanisms

and local
policy solutions, emergent contradictions,
the convergence
thesis of
alternatives;
assessing
in emerging market economies;
reforms
gover
legal
nance, trade, and labor mobility; neoliberal
policies
in Canada;
the logic of neo
and immigrant women
of consumer
liberalism and the political
economy
debt-led growth; world trade and world money?the
case for a new world
currency unit; multilateral
case of
in a neoliberal
era?the
institution-building
World Trade Organization
competition
policy; the
human welfare
and the
and global
governance;
Trade Organization?rethink
future of the World

is Director
of the Asia Competitiveness
lenges. Neo
Institute in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
is an
at the National
Chen
University of Singapore.
economist. Name and subject indexes.
H2

Taxation,

Andersson,
Oxelheim,
Europe:
Springer,
70709-7.

Subsidies,

and

Bevenue

Eberhartinger,
eds. National
Lars,
To Be or Not to Be? Berlin
2007.

Pp.

xiii, 255.

ISBN

Ten

in
Policy
and New York:
Tax

978-3-540

JEL 2008-0113
room for national

papers, examine how much

States of the European
policy Member
to maintain
will find necessary
and possible
tax

and

Eva

Krister;

Union
in the

tax
the role of national
future. Papers discuss
poli
Union
Eva
cies in the European
(Krister Andersson,
and Lars Oxelheim);
corporate income
Eberhartinger,
tax competition
and the scope for national tax policy

in the enlarged Europe

(Christian Bellak and Markus
and fiscal competi
free factor mobility
Leibrecht);
the national welfare state can survive
tion?whether
in a "united Europe"
fiscal competition
(Asa Hansson);
and activist social policy (Ulrike Schneider and August
an
common consolidated
?sterle);
corporate
optional
in the European
tax base
Union
the
(Andersson);

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Public Economies

State aid rules on national

influence of the European
tax
Court
policy (Franz Philipp Sutter); the European
recent
Taxation?a
of Justice and Direct
change
tax treaty
of direction
(Mattias Dahlberg);
policy
tax
national
(Michael Lang);
policy, the directives,

and Martin
and hybrid finance (Eberhartinger
Six);
tax
and the room for national
policy in the future
and Oxelheim).
Eberhartinger,
of the Tax Policy Department
of Swedish
Confederation
Enterprise.

(Andersson,
Europe
is Head
Andersson
with

the

Eberhartinger

is Professor

and Head

of the Tax

The Poli
Richard.
Eccleston,
Taxing Reforms:
Tax in Japan,
the United
tics of the Consumption
U.K.
and Australia.
Cheltenham,
States, Canada
Mass.:
and Northampton,
Elgar, 2007. Pp. vii, 202.
978-1-84542-120-5.

JEL 2008-0114

tax reform
the politics of consumption
Explores
resistance
in the four countries where
the political
to such
has been most acute?Australia,
policies
an
States. Provides
Canada,
Japan, and the United
literature on institu
overview of the contemporary

tional and policy change and identifies a number of

to be associated
and mechanisms
processes
likely
tax reform. Presents the empiri
with comprehensive
cal context for the book's case studies and describes
taxes over
of value-added
the rise and proliferation
the
of the twentieth century. Describes
tax reform in Australia
of
consumption
politics
the
the early 1970s and 2000. Considers
between
a national
and services
of
goods
introducing
politics
the most notable exception
tax in Canada.
Assesses
national
level
to the trend toward
implementing
industrial nations
value added taxes among advanced
case study. Identifies a number
with an American
on which U.S.
of occasions
gave seri
policymakers
ous consideration
to the introduction of a national
in the
is Senior Lecturer
value added tax. Eccleston
the course

of Government
Department
Tasmania.
Index.

H4

new ideas; and the

politics
Titmuss
Richard
Professor
London

School

H5

National

Publicly

Provided

at

the University

of

Goods

Le Grand,
The Other Invisible Hand: Deliv
Julian.
and Compe
through Choice
ering Public Services
tition. Princeton
and Oxford: Princeton
University
Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 195. $24.95, paper. ISBN 978
0-691-12936-5.
JEL 2008-0115
can ensure
Examines
how people
high-quality
services such as health care and education
public

Government

Le Grand

of choice.

is

at the
Policy
Science.
and Political

of Social

of Economics
no index.

Belated

at the Vienna

an affiliate of the Research

Institute
University, and is
and Fudan
of Industrial
Economics,
Stockholm,
University. Index.

ISBN

user choice
of
and
the encouragement
through
Discusses
the prob
among providers.
competition
lems involved in delivering
services; choice
public
and competition;
health
school
care;
education;

Bibliography;

University of
Department
Management
is
Economics
Oxelheim
and Business Administration.
at Lund
Chair in International Business
and Finance

$100.00.

219

Expenditures

and

Policies

and Wise,
David
A., eds. Social
Jonathan
the
and Retirement
around
Security
Programs
Con
World:
Fiscal
of Reform. NBER
Implications

Gruber,

series. Chicago
ference Report
Press, 2007.
versity of Chicago
ISBN 978-0-226-31017-6.

and

Pp.

London:

Uni

ix, 541. $85.00.

JEL 2008-0116

of
examine
the consequences
Twelve
papers
in a dozen
social
security programs
reforming
of social
microsimulation
nations.
discuss
Papers
simulating the response
security reforms in Belgium;
income security programs; fis
to reform of Canada's
of reforms in retirement
cal implications
systems
retirement behavior?the
in Denmark;
simulating
case of France;
the budget impact of reduced early
incentives on the German
retirement
public pen
of pension
reforms
sion system; fiscal implications

in
of social
security
implications
Italy; financial
reforms in
reforms in Japan; simulation of pension
the Netherlands;
evaluating
Spanish pension expen
financial
reform scenarios;
diture under alternative
income security reforms in Sweden;
implications of
state pension
fiscal effects of reforming the U.K.
reform in
system; and fiscal effects of social security
is Professor of Economics
the United States. Gruber
Institute of Technology
and
at the National
of the Program on Children
is John F.
Wise
Research.
Bureau
of Economic
in the
of Political
Professor
Economy
Stambaugh
at Harvard
School of Government
John F. Kennedy
on
of the Programs
and Director
Aging
University
and Health Care at the National Bureau of Economic
at the Massachusetts

Director

Research.

Author

and

subject

indexes.

RICHARD
IGOR; WeNNING,
LlNKOV,
Gregory
Critical
A., eds. Managing
Tools and Applications
Risks: Decision

J.

AND KlKER,

Infrastructure
for Port Secu
and Security Series C:

Science for Peace

rity. NATO
Environmental
Security. Dordrecht:
ISBN
Pp. xiv, 488.
978-1-4020-6383-1,

Springer, 2007.
978-1-4020-6384-4,
cloth;
pbk.
JEL 2008-0117

at the
papers, originally presented
Twenty-seven
on
NATO
Advanced
Research Workshop
Manage
for Port Security, Critical
Infrastructure,
in March
held in Venice
2006,
Sustainability
of environmental
the importance
security
explore

ment Tools
and

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Public Economies

faced by coastal ports and harbors.

and challenges
of critical infrastruc
focus on an overview
Papers
ture and environmental
security; port critical infra
structure and management
frameworks;
ecological
risks in harbors and coastal areas; decision making
and risk assessment

methods,
tools, and applications
infrastructure and port security; and case
iswith INTER
in risk management.
Linkov

for critical
studies

TOX. Wenning

iswith

Florida.

index.

Kiker
Corporation.
tural and Biological
Author

for

Organisation

the ENVIRON
International
is in the Department
of Agricul
at the University of
Engineering

Co-operation

Economic

to 2030.

and

2.
Infrastructure
Water
and Trans
Mapping
Policy for Electricity,
D.C.: Organisation
for
port. Paris and Washington,
2007.
Economic
and Development,
Co-operation
Development.

Pp. 505. Paper.

ISBN

Volume

978-92-64-03131-9.

JEL 2008-0118

papers assess the future viability

in five infrastructure
"business models"
Seven

of current
sectors?

electricity, water, rail freight, urban public transport,

discuss
infrastructure
and road transport. Papers
to 2030?main
recommenda
findings and policy
a
tions (Barrie Stevens
and Pierre-Alain
Schieb);
on the
cross-sectoral
long-term outlook for
synthesis

models
infrastructure
business
(Michel Andrieu);
the long-term outlook for business mod
assessing
els in electricity infrastructure and services (Trevor
ser
water infrastructure and water-related
Morgan);
vices?trends

and challenges

affecting future devel

Heather Cooley, Peter
key trends and implica

opment (Meena Palaniappan,

H. Gleick, and Gary Wolff);
tions for policy change in long-term rail freight traf
fic and infrastructure
(Louis S. Thompson);
strategic
issues for the future funding and operation of urban
and road
transport
systems (Yves Crozet);
trends,
models,
transport infrastructure?business
and prospects
and Nigel J. Smith).
(Peter J.Mackie
No index.
public

Rudolph
Penner,
G,
tives on Social Security
Institute Press,
Urban
ISBN 978-0-87766-743-8.

ed. International
Perspec
D.C.:
Reform. Washington,
2007. Pp. xiv, 171. Paper.
JEL 2008-0119

Six papers and twelve comments,

originally pre
at an Urban
Institute conference
held in
social security reform in
2006, examine
February
countries.
six OECD
(Real
Papers discuss Canada
and Edward
Sweden
Bouchard);
(Agneta Kruse
sented

(Michael
Germany
and
(Alex Beer);
Kingdom
and
Puente Cackley, Tom Moscovitch,
Italy (Alicia
is Senior Fellow
and
Pfeiffer). Penner
Benjamin
in Public
holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair

Palmer);

Mersmann);

policy

Japan (Tetsuo
the United

at the Urban

Kabe);

Institute.

Index.

H6

National
David

Primo,

Budget,
M.

Rules

and

Deficit,
and Restraint:

Debt

Government

and the Design

of Institutions.
Spending
Chicago
and London:
Press, 2007. Pp.
University of Chicago
xiii, 203. $50.00, cloth; $20.00, paper. ISBN 978-0
226-68259-4,

cloth; 978-0-226-68260-0,

pbk.

JEL 2008-0120

Examines

of federal
the design and enforcement
state government
rules in the United
budget
States. Discusses
why institutions exist and the chal

and

in designing
rules and
both
lenges encountered
them. Analyzes
the impact of spending
enforcing
limits, supermajority voting rules, and executive veto
on
under exogenous
authority
budgetary bargaining
Considers
enforcement.
enforcement.
endogenous

budget
Empirically
explores the impact of balanced
rules, reversion budgets, and other rules on spend
states.
the theory from previ
ing in the U.S.
Applies
ous

to the U.S. federal government

through
chapters
a series of case studies. Addresses
for
the prospects

of enforcement
future reforms, given the challenges
associated
with design.
the political problems
in the Department
Primo
is Assistant
of
Professor
and

at

Science

Political
Index.

H7

and

State

the University

Local

Government
Belations

Intergovernmental

F. The Silence

Zimmerman,
Joseph
Taxation of Interstate Commerce.
versity of New York Press, 2007.
ISBN

978-0-7914-7205-7.

Examines

state

of Rochester.

State
of Congress:
Uni
Albany: State
Pp. xi, 284. $75.00.

JEL 2008-0121
of interstate commerce

taxation

on the
to
inactivity
part of Congress
state competi
Discusses
such commerce.
regulate
tion for tax revenue; excise and documentary
taxes;
severance
income tax; corpo
taxes; the nonresident
rate income taxation; escheats and tax revenue com

and the relative

the
for other tax resources;
petition;
competition
and fairness in taxation of inter
silence of Congress;
is Professor
state income. Zimmerman
of Political
Science
of New

at the University
York. Bibliography;

at

Albany,
index.

State University

Issues

H8 Miscellaneous
and

Ariel.
US Tax
Hufbauer,
Income. Washington,
Peter
ation of Foreign
D.C.:
son Institute for International
2007. Pp.
Economics,
xvii, 319. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88132-405-1.
Gary

Clyde

Assa,

Examines

JEL 2008-0122

urgent reforms that should be feasible

cor
within the context of the U.S.
system for taxing
income, focusing on taxation
porate and individual
of foreign income. Discusses
taxation;
corporate

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Health, Education,

tax doctrine for foreign income; residence

investment income; multina
for portfolio
and an agenda
tional firms in the world economy;
territorial system. Appendices
reform?a
formodest
include further information on the history of U.S.
taxation of foreign income of U.S. corporations;
the
traditional

and Welfare

221

to the
contribution
response.
global
and practices;
peo
public health policies
disclosure
and
ple living with HIV?discrimination;
sex work; men
exposure;
having
injecting drug use;
sex with men; women;
clinical
children;
research;
access
to medicines;
and World
information;

World

Bank's

taxation

Discusses

tax credit limitations; the his

history of U.S. foreign
current
U.S.
taxation of controlled
of
of
deferral
tory

is Assistant
Gable
Bank policies
and procedures.
Law
at Wayne
State University
of Law
Professor
School, and is Scholar at the Center for Law and the

taxation of
the history of U.S.
foreign corporations;
taxa
merchandise
export income; the history of U.S.
in the
business
tion of foreign corporations
doing
rules
United States; the history of source-of-income

and Johns Hopkins

at Georgetown
is Counsel/Legal
Associate
Gamharter
in the Environmentally
and Socially
Sustainable
Health

Public's

Universities.

to the Tax Reform Act of 1986; comparison

prior
rules before and after the Tax
of source-of-income

Development
of theWorld

Act of 1986; allocation-of-expenses

rules;
the history of rules for intercompany pricing between
for
U.S. and affiliated foreign corporations; methods
a
income
model
taxes;
simple
reducing corporate
of world portfolio capital flows; temporary taxes on
for reimbursement
of
conditions
portfolio capital;
the backup withholding
tax; the simple economics
electronic commerce;
and
of imperfect competition;
revenue on
investment in the United States.
foreign
at the
is Reginald
Hufbauer
Jones Senior Fellow
Assa
Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Associate

Reform

is a tax counsel
I

Health,

for JP Morgan

Index.

Chase.

and Welfare

Education,

II Health

an
issue
analysis of the complex policy
a brief
control. Discusses
history of the
drinking?a
supply side; the alcoholism movement;
control as
alcohol
and quantities;
primer; prices
and
effects?hearts
long-term
injury prevention;
the tendency of drinkers to earn more than
minds;
those who abstain;
interventions;
regu
evaluating
as
alcohol
industry; youth
lating supply; taxing the
a
case; and alcohol-control
policy for the
special
is Professor
of Public
Cook
twenty-first century.
at Duke University. Index.
Economics
Policy and
Presents

of alcohol

Gable,
tin,
Van

Lance;
Lawrence

O.;

Puymbroeck,
A Guide
HIV/AIDS:

D.C.:
Washington,
$22.00, paper. ISBN

HIV/AIDS

guide

pandemic

Gos

and
James G., Jr.
V. Legal Aspects
of
Policy and Law Reform.

Hodge,
Rudolf

for
World

Presents

Katharina;

Gamharter,

Bank, 2007.
978-0-8213-7105-3.
to

Pp.

xix, 225.

JEL 2008-0124

of
legal aspects
to enhance
intended
the

of Law

Director

the

the

at Georgetown

of the Center

Group
is
Gostin

Programs
University Law
and the
for Law

at Georgetown
and Johns Hopkins
and Professor of Law and Public Health
Universities,
at
in the Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Johns
is
Associate
Professor
University. Hodge
Hopkins
at
in the Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Johns
in the Center
Director
Hopkins University, Executive
at Georgetown
and
for Law and the Public's Health
Health

in the
and Core Faculty
Universities,
Johns Hopkins
Institute at the Bloomberg
School
Berman Bioethics
at
Van Puymbroeck
of Public Health
Johns Hopkins.
is an independent
adviser on health law and interna
Index.
tional development.

Jost, Timothy

Philip
the Tab: The Economics
Cook,
of
J. Paying
Princeton
Princeton
and Oxford:
Alcohol
Policy.
ISBN
262. $35.00.
University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii,
2008-0123
978-0-691-12520-6.
JEL

Practice

Legal Vice Presidency.

forResearch
and Academic

Dean

and Professor
Center,
Public's

Law

and International

Bank's

Stoltzfus.

Health

at Risk:

Care

Dur
Movement.
of the Consumer-Driven
Critique
ham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp.
ISBN 978
xviii, 265. $79.95, cloth; $22.95, paper.
0-8223-4101-7,

cloth; 978-0-8223-4124-6,

Examines
care,

pbk.

JEL 2008-0125

health
the concept of consumer-driven
it is the answer to the
and considers whether

the
access,
cost, and quality
afflicting
problems
our bro
American
health care system. Discusses
ken American
health care system; the consumer
care
health
consumer-driven
driven prescription;
are and what
advocates?who
they believe;
they
health care the first time around;
consumer-driven
consumer
system; the origins of
care?a
short history of American
the theoretical
foundations
of
health
economics;
care?a
short history of
health
consumer-driven
foun
American
the theoretical
health economics;
the nonaccidental

driven

dations
dence

health

of consumer-driven

health

for and against consumer-driven

issues
and regulatory
ethical,

care;

the evi

health

care;

by
presented
legal,
consumers
health
consumer-driven
care; whether
are our
other countries
organize
only hope?how
their health care systems; and how to fix our bro
we
care
start. Jost is
ken health
system?where
of Law at the
Robert L. Willett
Family Professor

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