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Bringing the analysis of Brazil's economic performance up to date, Baer's classic text remains the only book in English to provide a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional description of the Brazilian economy. After touching on such issues as Brazil's early exporting economy, the impact of the industrialization process, and the historical struggle to bring inflation under control, the book turns to contemporary issues, the changing nature of Brazil's international trading and investment links, the process of privatization, environmental issues, and the economics of the health delivery system. Scholars, students, international institutions dealing with development, and corporate officers dealing with Latin America will welcome this up-to-date, definitive book on one of the world's largest economies.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Brazil --- Economic conditions.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Africa --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Eastern Hemisphere

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POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Semiconductor industry --- Technology transfer --- Competition, International --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Competition, International. --- International competition --- World economics --- International relations --- International trade --- War --- Economic aspects

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One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups. In Site Fights, Daniel P. Aldrich gathers quantitative evidence from close to five hundred municipalities across Japan to show that planners deliberately seek out acquiescent and unorganized communities for such facilities in order to minimize conflict. When protests arise over nuclear power plants, dams, and airports, agencies regularly rely on the coercive powers of the modern state, such as land expropriation and police repression. Only under pressure from civil society do policymakers move toward financial incentives and public relations campaigns. Through fieldwork and interviews with bureaucrats and activists, Aldrich illustrates these dynamics with case studies from Japan, France, and the United States. The incidents highlighted in Site Fights stress the importance of developing engaged civil society even in the absence of crisis, thereby making communities both less attractive to planners of controversial projects and more effective at resisting future threats.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Industrial location --- Industrial policy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- J4419 --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations -- industry and society and environment

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The Silence of Congress is the first book to examine state taxation of interstate commerce and the relative inactivity on the part of Congress to regulate such commerce. As states actively seek to maximize tax revenues, congressional silence has affected both citizens and corporations and resulted in myriad tax inequalities from one state to another on such things as personal income, estates, cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, tourism, and even visiting athlete status. Inconsistencies also affect a state's ability to attract and hold lucrative business investments such as sports franchises and gambling facilities. Noting that Congress has been slow to take advantage of the broad powers granted it by the United States Constitution in this area, Joseph F. Zimmerman evaluates the usefulness of Adam Smith's four universally acclaimed maxims of fair taxation and recommends changes to ground rules that would increase cooperation between states while aiding in the creation of a more perfect economic union.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Intergovernmental tax relations --- Interstate commerce --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Public Finance --- States --- Taxation --- States. --- Commerce