Social Experimentation and Economic Poli

Klappentext Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world. Zusammenfassung Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world. Instead of testing policies by analytical methods or by laboratory simulation! the policies are tested on people who would be affected were these policies implemented. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

Product details

• Authors: Ferber, Robert Ferber, Werner Z. Hirsch
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521285070
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28507-0
• Series: British and American Playwrigh
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics