Robert Ferber, Ferber, Werner Z. Hirsch

Social Experimentation and Economic Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780521285070
• ISBN-10: 0521285070
• Artikelnr.: 24724580

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Nature of social experimentation
3. Challenges posed by social experiments
4. The start: the New Jersey Experiment
5. The other negative income tax experiments
6. Labour force experiments
7. The Health Insurance Study
8. Electricity peak-load pricing experiments
9. The cash housing allowance experiments
10. What have we learned?