Product Description: Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.  Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years...read more

Product Description: America is now acutely aware of climate change as never before. Energy security, on the other hand, has been a major American concern at least since the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, and it too is receiving renewed attention in current political campaigns...read more

Product Description: Contents include:• Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox Betsey Stevenson and JustinWolfers (University of Pennsylvania)•Trade and Wages, Reconsidered Paul Krugman (Princeton University)•The Economics of Place-Making Policies Edward Glaeser and Joshua Gottlieb (Harvard University...read more

Product Description: The transatlantic relationship is under serious strain. The end of the Cold War, Europes continuing integration, and the new array of threats confronting the West have led Americans and Europeans alike to question the durability and utility of the Atlantic alliance...read more

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In Understanding Unemployment, Lawrence Summers and colleagues Kim Clark, James Poterba, Gregory Mankiw, Julio Rotemberg, and Olivier Blanchard explore new theories of joblessness that could eventually explain why unemployment remains high despite relatively healthy economic growth.

Tax policy debates, generated by one of the most sweeping reforms of the federal income tax system since its inception, are certain to continue for years to come, providing a fertile field for economic research. This book is the third in a series of annual publications on tax policy and the economy initiated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and designed to convey research results in a way that is accessible to a wide body of lawyers, policymakers, and businesspeople involved in formulating tax policy. Volume 3 includes contributions by Douglas Bernaheim on the incentive effects of the corporate alternative minimum tax; James Poterba on venture capital and capital gains taxation; Daniel Feenberg and Jonathan Skinner on IRA saving; and by Martin Feldstein and Douglas Elmendorf and Lawrence Summers. Lawrence H. Summers is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. (view table of contents)