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The richest, the strongest, the most competitive
and flexible market economy, the North America has always been a
land of opportunities for all, with no barriers of nationality,
religion, gender, what guarantees a high level of individual freedom.
Leveraging on the "American dream",
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Essay: A comparative study of health care in USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand (2010)
Essay: The impact of climate change on USA Essay: Americans' opionion of social security Graph: Job losses under Republican and Democratic administrations (2007-2012)
Essays: Several key economic policy propositions by a think tank that supports Barack Obama The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress, John Podesta, will be heading President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. The Center has released in the latest months several papers on how to cope with American and world economy. Labor Rights Can Be Good Trade Policy Tax Cuts on Profits, Savings, and the Wealthy Fail to Spur Economic Growth Virtuous Circle: Strengthening Broad-Based Global Progress in Living Standards A progressive approach to U.S.-China relations in the 21st century
Essay: The economic policy of Barack Obama - an interpretation The author argues the following: "By surrounding himself with economists, Obama was also making a decision with ideological consequences. Far more than many other policy advisers, economists believe in the power of markets. What tends to distinguish Democratic economists is that they set out to uncover imperfections of the market and then come up with incremental, market-based solutions to these imperfections. This helps explain the Obama campaign’s interest in behavioral economics, a relatively new field that has pointed out many ways in which people make irrational, short-term decisions".
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debate on a macroeconomic stimulus: a few contributions
Christina Romer ex-post analysis (September 2010) Optimal fiscal polity in a liquidity trap by Paul Krugman - Dec. 29, 2008 The Obama Gap by Paul Krugman - January 8, 2009 Prospects for the U.S. and the World: A Crisis That Conventional Remedies Cannot Resolve - by W. Godley, D. B. Papadimitriou, and G. Zezza - December, 2008
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The image of America in the world and how to improve it Essay: The State of Working America The executive summary of an analysis of USA society. 2008-2009 data from the same source Link to: Republican Party Policy Commitee Link to: Democratic Party Policy Committee
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Economic data: US data for all the variables in IS-LM model Comprehensive of 54 variables in long-term annual and quarterly time-series, this US dataset is excellent for students to test the model as well as for researchers to develop original reflections. MS Excel [104 KB]
Economic data: National income and gross national product, by components - Canada (1926-1976)
Economic data: Human development index (162 countries) A rich report of reflections and data.
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Economic data: Gross domestic expenditure on R&D by source of funds in 71 countries in USA, Canada and other areas Economic data: US Science and R&D: key figures
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Book: High-Tech Start-Ups and Industry Dynamics in Silicon Valley Using two unique longitudinal databases, Junfu Zhang investigates firm formation, growth, mortality, and migration in Silicon Valley during the 1990s and explain how the region evolved. After extraordinary economic and innovation success in the late 1990s, Silicon Valley entered a deep recession in 2001. This study seeks to answer tough policy-relevant and empirical questions of interest everywhere in the world.
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Link to: Council on competitiveness U.S. Competitiveness 2001: Strengths, Vulnerabilities and Long-Term Priorities [6.2 MB]
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Economic data: Stock exchange index for 10 markets (S&P500, Nikkei, Dax, Cac,...) - Daily quotes (1995-2000)
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data: Environmental respect data: the number of ISO14000 certified
firms in 98 American and non-American countries - a time-series
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Economic data: Composition of public expenditure (education, health, defence...) - 69 countries in North America and other areas (1975-1985)
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Economic data: Total expenditure on health in OECD countries (1960-2000)
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Economic data: Health and disease statistics worldwide
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Economic data: Productivity in 99 countries (1950-2000) Direct link to Groningen Growth and Development Centre and The
Conference Board, Total Economy Database, February 2004, at http://www.ggdc.net,
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Economic data: Comparable wages for 162 jobs in 132 American and non-American countries The MS Excel file with a user-friendly interface of the excellent dataset by Freeman - Oostendorp. Long-term time-series from 1983 to 1999. This data set allows for comparison of wages across countries for the same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled and unskilled works. MS Excel [2.9 MB]
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Economic data: Education attainments in reading Compare USA and Canada with 33 other nations in the world thanks to the exceptional survey by IEA’s Study of Reading Literacy (PIRL), with microdata available. PDF [8 MB]
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Economic data: Personal and government savings in USA, Japan, Germany: a short-run comparison
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Economic data: Tax revenue in OECD countries (1966-2000) plus a comparison in tax systems
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Economic data: Longitudinal micro-datasets of USA families on a subannual basis Cash and noncash income, taxes, assets, liabilities, education, age, and participation in government transfer programs. SIPP free data allow the government to evaluate the effectiveness of federal, state, and local programs Essay:
Urban planning in USA: a chronology
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Economic data: US dollar against 200 currencies in the world In one sheet you can track and compare the yearly exchange rate dynamics of 200 world currencies on the long term compared to the US dollar. Currency crises, fixed exchange rates and wide fluctuations in a fully international perspective.
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Economic data: Profit ratio to employed capital: an international comparison of profitability over time (34 countries)
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Economic data: M1 data - a long-term money time-series for 19 countries (USA, UK, France,...)
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Economic data: Origins and destinations in world trade - Trade flows over time
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Economic data: Gender statistics from all over the world
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