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  • June 8, 1988
    Policy Analysis
    No. 108
    Mandatory Family-Leave Legislation: The Hidden Costs
    … women? This study will explore the many questions that should be answered before this country considers a national family‐​leave policy. As with all economic regulation, the costs and benefits are difficult to identify and can never be measured precisely …
    By Deborah Walker
  • April 26, 1988
    Policy Analysis
    No. 104
    Going with the Flow: Expanding the Water Markets
    … Farmers are trying to stay in business and are recognizing that their water is often worth more than their crops. Policymakers recognize that the natural environment must be protected because it is a major economic asset in the region.[1 …
    By Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal
  • December 15, 1987
    Policy Analysis
    No. 97
    Interstate Banking: The Reform That Won’t Go Away
    … these countries suggest that nationwide branch banking must be part of any lasting cure for our nation’s financial ills. Policy makers, including the present Congress, have made numerous proposals for reform, deregulation, and even reregulation. Some have discussed plans …
    By Steven Horwitz and George Selgin
  • April 28, 1987
    Policy Analysis
    No. 85
    Nonbank Banks Are Not the Problem
    … the name. As Congress sets out to deal with the “problem” of nonbank banks, however, it is particularly important for policy–makers as well as the general public to set aside the myths and misconceptions and view the nonbank bank …
    By Catherine England
  • July 28, 1986
    Policy Analysis
    No. 76
    Privatization: The Worker Buy-Out Option
    … whose support the administration should have been able to attract. And it is no wonder that the administration’s new policy for dealing with Amtrak–letting it go bankrupt and then seeing if anyone wants to buy some of the …
    By Peter Young
  • July 1, 1986
    Policy Analysis
    No. 75
    Market Solutions to the Education Crisis
    In recent years, hundreds of prestigious reports, studies, surveys, recommendations, and policy statements have told us what’s wrong with education and what to do about it. Nevertheless, significant reform in public education has not occurred, nor is it occurring …
    By Myron Lieberman
  • June 3, 1986
    Policy Analysis
    No. 73
    Deductible IRAs Are Best for Workers
    … about the same benefits in retirement from their IRAs as under current law. Moreover, it should be recognized that the policy justifications for fully deductible IRAs are still applicable and compelling under the Committee’s sweeping tax‐​reform proposal. Opinion …
    By Peter J. Ferrara
  • March 18, 1986
    Policy Analysis
    No. 68
    Does More Technology Create Unemployment?
    … more secure.”[2] Harvard’s Robert Reich completes the theme that government must act by arguing that America’s industrial policy “is the by‐​product of individual corporate strategies whose goals may have little to do with enhancing the standard …
    By R. H. Mabry and A. D. Sharplin
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