** An aside: I am aware that I have said nothing about the usefulness of the spending projects, the waste and inefficiency that exists with many government programs, cronyism, inequality, etc., etc. These are legitimate and important questions, but they are not the focus of this analysis. ...
For Terje Aven, the work has been funded by the Norwegian Research Council as a part of the Petromaks 2 program under Grant numbers 228335/E30 and 233971. The support is gratefully acknowledged.References [1] B.J.M. Ale, D.N.D. Hartford, D. Slater ALARP and CBA all in the same ...
DeCA operates 236 commissaries worldwide, all funded by both appropriations and revenue from the sale of goods. As commissary sales have fallen from about $6 billion in FY 2015 to about $4.4 billion in FY 2021, DeCA has worked to implement business reforms such as variable pricing, sale of...
We proxy these effects by monitoring government spending on both public goods and unemployment benefits during the post-crisis, in order to demonstrate the trade-off between the two government-funded policies (demand and supply stimulus) and bank deregulation. Note that the tax rate can be ...
The number of restrictions on overseas investment in China was cut by 50%, and over 95% of overseas-funded projects may now be undertaken on a simple reporting basis. China utilized US$126.3 billion of overseas investment, an increase of 5.6%. Non-financial outward foreign direct ...
The number of restrictions on overseas investment in China was cut by 50%, and over 95% of overseas-funded projects may now be undertaken on a simple reporting basis. China utilized US$126.3 billion of overseas investment, an increase of 5.6%. Non-financial outward foreign direct investment ...
Shadow government employees include everyone from university biochemistry professors whose budgets and graduate student employees are funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, to employees of concrete factories whose product is purchased predominantly for government road building. Countless contra...
Yes, there will be a compassionate safety net too, funded by rerouting what is currently misused to actual care of those who need it most. Patients and families will control this safety net backstop, and there should be a role for true charity. This rebuild starts with a foundation built...
it is that it is not efficient to try to provide information goods via a competitive market for they are neither rival nor excludible. It makes no microeconomic sense at all for services like those provided by Google to be funded and incentivized by how much ...
obstructing the market from determining a minimum wage is misguided and costly. If a guaranteed minimum income is to ever be a reality, it has to be funded from a source that does not have to operate under a tight profit-and-loss reality, and there is only one such entity in existence....