Economics

Implementing Income Tax Reform in Democratic Spain (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

This case examines the challenge of implementing a major change in public policy in Spain in the post-Franco period, namely the shift from a tax system in which tax liabilities were inferred from objective, non-monetary indicators to one that...

Post Office Square Park (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

City parks are traditionally viewed by economists as public goods-assets whose benefits are so widely shared that only government has both the means and the motive to finance them. This case tells the story of what might seem to be a...

Post Office Square Park

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

City parks are traditionally viewed by economists as public goods-assets whose benefits are so widely shared that only government has both the means and the motive to finance them. This case tells the story of what might seem to be a...

Shifting the Terms of Debate: Mayor Norm Rice and the Greater Seattle Growth Quagmire

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When Seattle Mayor Norm Rice decided to seek ways to push a limited pro-growth strategy in a city long leery of new development, he confronted an essential conflict in political life: how could elected officials discuss new ideas to which they...

The (Julia?) Child's Guide to "e"

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This is a short explanation of how capital investment analyses can be simplified using continuous discounting and the exponential function "e." Cookbook formulas for diverse cost and benefit time patterns are provided.

United States Sugar Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

US price supports for domestically grown sugar become controversial because of their varying impacts on sugar-exporting nations, domestic sugar refiners and, of course, domestic growers.Learning Objective:This case, told from the point of view...

Containing the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Reform in the Rural Employment Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme is one of the most effective existing public programs dealing with rural unemployment in a developing country. This case describes the charges of corruption in the scheme, made by political opponents of...

Scaling Down the Bureaucracy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The problem of excessively large public bureaucracies, in relationship to the size of the overall economy, plagues many developing countries. The Pacific Basin nation of Gapura--a disguised composite of similar emerging nations in that...

Sunshine and Shadow: The CIA and the Soviet Economy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After nearly 40 years of steady, rigorous, remarkably open, and respected analysis of the Soviet economy, the CIA stood accused in the early 1990s of having gotten the answer badly wrong: so much so that Daniel Patrick Moynihan had called for...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this context, the county executive seriously examines...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this context, the county executive seriously examines...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to explore how a government economic promotion agency can foster the will and capacity of locally concentrated traditional industries to prosper in competitive market environments. The agency (IPIA) is a unit of...