Robert E Litan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Litan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Litan |
| SIGNATURE | LITAN R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Systematic Thinking for Social Action
In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book,Systematic Thinking for Social Action, spent years on the Brookings Press bestseller list. Is is a very personal and convers…
None of Your Business
The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack adequate protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes. In this book, Peter Swire …
Addressing the next wave of Internet regulation
The ultimate formulation of the Federal Communications Commission's “nondiscrimination on the Internet” principle could have a significant impact on economic welfare and on innovation. In this article, we explain the economics of discrimination as it applies to the Internet, and we offer a new approach for identifying anticompetitive discrimination. Our proposal would require a complaining content provider to prove (i) the broadband service provi…
Capitalism
For the general welfare, growth is arguably the most pressing of all economic issues. It is the one process that can raise living standards without letup and promise substantial reduction of the world's widespread poverty, which George Bernard Shaw rightly described as humanity's greatest crime. The pressing issue, then, is what can be done to stimulate economic growth substantially or at least to preclude its decline?
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their citizens? In Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm contend that…
Sustaining Entrepreneurial Capitalism
The conventional wisdom is that the surge in productivity growth which has surged in the United States over the past 15 years has been attributed almost wholly to advances in the production and use of information technology. While this is certainly evident from the statistics, a driving force behind the IT revolution has been the development and growth of new firms. Indeed, the U.S. economy has achieved a remarkable transformation over the last s…
Financial Statecraft
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments--most notably the United States--came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase …
Information Technology Meets the Developing World
That information and communications technologies are reshaping developed economies is now very much taken for granted. Much less is known about how such technologies are affecting or will affect the developing world. The only certainty is the obvious fact that telephone and Internet use in these countries lags significantly behind their richer counterparts. For most economists, this “digital divide” can be easily explained. Poorer countries canno…
The Internet Economy
Why the WTO is not (yet) the Antidote for Globaphobia
Globaphobia
Globalization and Its Discontents
The period immediately following the Second World War, which produced the Marshall Plan, nato, and the U.S.-Japan security treaty, is righdy regarded as for eign policy's golden era. But it also saw the birth of comparably successful economic institutions?such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade?designed to promote long-term prosperity through stable exchange rates, worldwide development,…
Financial Regulation in the Global Economy
Growth with Equity
The Liability Maze
Bank Failure
Several books have been written recently on the collapse of the banking industry in the United States. These books are enlightening to the extent they detail the economic problems facing the industry and propose constructive solutions for resolving the crisis. Unfortunately, the books fail to provide a convincing account of the cause of the current problems in the banking industry. Ultimately, the problems facing the American banking industry are…
Down in the Dumps
During the past decade the administration of the U.S. trade laws has become increasingly controversial. Trade experts have long questioned the methods used by the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, which is responsible for calculating dumping and countervailable subsidy rates on imported goods. This study is the first to bring together attorneys and economists who are experts in the area of trade to examine and criticize …
International Trade Politics
"Comments on Mendeloff's "Regulatory Reform and Osha Policy
Reforming Federal Regulation
II. On Rectification in Nozick's Minimal State
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their citizens? In Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm contend that…
Financial Statecraft
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments--most notably the United States--came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase …
Globaphobia
II. On Rectification in Nozick's Minimal State
Reforming Federal Regulation
The Internet Economy
The Liability Maze
Bank Failure
Several books have been written recently on the collapse of the banking industry in the United States. These books are enlightening to the extent they detail the economic problems facing the industry and propose constructive solutions for resolving the crisis. Unfortunately, the books fail to provide a convincing account of the cause of the current problems in the banking industry. Ultimately, the problems facing the American banking industry are…
Down in the Dumps
During the past decade the administration of the U.S. trade laws has become increasingly controversial. Trade experts have long questioned the methods used by the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, which is responsible for calculating dumping and countervailable subsidy rates on imported goods. This study is the first to bring together attorneys and economists who are experts in the area of trade to examine and criticize …
II. On Rectification in Nozick's Minimal State
Reforming Federal Regulation
"Comments on Mendeloff's "Regulatory Reform and Osha Policy
International Trade Politics
The Liability Maze
Bank Failure
Several books have been written recently on the collapse of the banking industry in the United States. These books are enlightening to the extent they detail the economic problems facing the industry and propose constructive solutions for resolving the crisis. Unfortunately, the books fail to provide a convincing account of the cause of the current problems in the banking industry. Ultimately, the problems facing the American banking industry are…
Down in the Dumps
During the past decade the administration of the U.S. trade laws has become increasingly controversial. Trade experts have long questioned the methods used by the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, which is responsible for calculating dumping and countervailable subsidy rates on imported goods. This study is the first to bring together attorneys and economists who are experts in the area of trade to examine and criticize …
Growth with Equity
Financial Regulation in the Global Economy
Globaphobia
Globalization and Its Discontents
The period immediately following the Second World War, which produced the Marshall Plan, nato, and the U.S.-Japan security treaty, is righdy regarded as for eign policy's golden era. But it also saw the birth of comparably successful economic institutions?such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade?designed to promote long-term prosperity through stable exchange rates, worldwide development,…
Why the WTO is not (yet) the Antidote for Globaphobia
The Internet Economy
Information Technology Meets the Developing World
That information and communications technologies are reshaping developed economies is now very much taken for granted. Much less is known about how such technologies are affecting or will affect the developing world. The only certainty is the obvious fact that telephone and Internet use in these countries lags significantly behind their richer counterparts. For most economists, this “digital divide” can be easily explained. Poorer countries canno…
Financial Statecraft
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments--most notably the United States--came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase …
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their citizens? In Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm contend that…
Sustaining Entrepreneurial Capitalism
The conventional wisdom is that the surge in productivity growth which has surged in the United States over the past 15 years has been attributed almost wholly to advances in the production and use of information technology. While this is certainly evident from the statistics, a driving force behind the IT revolution has been the development and growth of new firms. Indeed, the U.S. economy has achieved a remarkable transformation over the last s…
Capitalism
For the general welfare, growth is arguably the most pressing of all economic issues. It is the one process that can raise living standards without letup and promise substantial reduction of the world's widespread poverty, which George Bernard Shaw rightly described as humanity's greatest crime. The pressing issue, then, is what can be done to stimulate economic growth substantially or at least to preclude its decline?
None of Your Business
The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack adequate protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes. In this book, Peter Swire …
Addressing the next wave of Internet regulation
The ultimate formulation of the Federal Communications Commission's “nondiscrimination on the Internet” principle could have a significant impact on economic welfare and on innovation. In this article, we explain the economics of discrimination as it applies to the Internet, and we offer a new approach for identifying anticompetitive discrimination. Our proposal would require a complaining content provider to prove (i) the broadband service provi…
Systematic Thinking for Social Action
In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book,Systematic Thinking for Social Action, spent years on the Brookings Press bestseller list. Is is a very personal and convers…
Economics (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Development economics (4 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (4 works) · International trade (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)