Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1282-1286
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Future ◽  
Policy Program

Ronald Fischer of Universidad de Chile reviews “Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times” by John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Considers better ways to deliver government goods and services through collaboration with private firms, groups, or individuals. Discusses private roles for public goals; rationales and reservations; the delegator's dilemma; collaboration for productivity; collaboration for information; collaboration for legitimacy; collaboration for resources; tasks and tools; getting collaboration right; and forging the future--payoffs and perils. Donahue is Chair of the Master in Public Policy Program at Harvard University. Zeckhauser is at the Harvard Kennedy School. Index.”

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 525-527 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
International Economics ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
High Income ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Debt Default

Menzie D. Chinn of University of Wisconsin reviews “A Decade of Debt” by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the recent simultaneous peacetime buildup of large public debt positions in most of the world's advanced high-income countries and considers policy strategies that countries can undertake to prevent negative debt outcomes. Discusses a decade of debt and presents a chartbook of country histories of debt, default, and financial crises. Reinhart is Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Rogoff is a member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics Advisory Committee and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Index.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1278-1281
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis ◽  
The University

Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University and NBER reviews “Reforming U.S. Financial Markets: Reflections before and beyond Dodd-Frank” by Randall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shiller. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Two papers and discussions, presented at the fifth Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy held at Harvard University in April 2009, explore what the United States should do to prevent a repeat of the recent financial crisis and the economic costs it has imposed. Papers discuss democratizing and humanizing finance (Robert J. Shiller) and making markets more robust (Randall S. Kroszner). Kroszner is Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. Index.”

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