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The chapters in this manuscript explore, through applications to issues within the United States and internationally, contemporary issues in public policy through the theoretical framework of knowledge problems and market process economics.
List of contents
Foreword, Boudreaux / 1. Introduction, Haeffele, Hall, and Millsap / 2. Who Plans? Jane Jacobs' Hayekian Critique of Urban Planning, Gray / 3. The Knowledge Problem and Education Finance, Crouch / 4. Centralization of the Child Welfare Systems and the Knowledge Problem, McCray / 5. The Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act: That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen, Shupe / 6. An Analysis of Agent Decisions and Institutional Effects in Healthcare, Famodimu / 7. How Reputational Feedback Can Mitigate the Knowledge Problem: Lessons Learned from the U.S., Galata-Bickell / 8. The Knowledge Problem in International Entity Level Taxation, Michel / 9. De-risking and the Knowledge Problem: The Unseen Consequences of Financial Sanctions, Gjoza /10. Trade Openness, Information, Feedback, and Domestic Economic Regulation, Ruhland / 11. Was it Worth It? The Effects of ODA, NGOs, and Time on Local Politics in the Haitian State, DeMattee
About the author
Stefanie Haeffele is the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Abigail Hall is Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Florida and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a non-partisan research and educational think tank based in Oakland, California.
Adam Millsap is the Assistant Director of the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center for the Study of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity at Florida State University.
Summary
The chapters in this manuscript explore, through applications to issues within the United States and internationally, contemporary issues in public policy through the theoretical framework of knowledge problems and market process economics.
