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The Case For The Savings-Exempt Income Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum Oct 1993

The Case For The Savings-Exempt Income Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum gives his reasons why he supports a savings-exempt income tax.


The U.S./Ec Relationship: Friends And Competitors, Murray L. Weidenbaum Oct 1993

The U.S./Ec Relationship: Friends And Competitors, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The United States and the European Community need to develop a better understanding of how to simultaneously be both friends and competitors. U.S. firms with facilities in the EC will benefit from this regional trade zone while others will find difficulties trying to export goods to the EC. The author concludes that he expects the United States and the European Community will work more closely in the 21st century.


A New Technology Policy For The United States, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1993

A New Technology Policy For The United States, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The Clinton Administration is proposing a new technology policy, but unfortunately wants to follow the policy used when national security was the motivating force. A new policy would be more effective if it reduced governmental obstacles to the commercialization of new technology.


Restraining Medicine Prices: Controls Vs. Competition, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1993

Restraining Medicine Prices: Controls Vs. Competition, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

With the cost of prescription medicines constantly rising, the government has been considering price controls. This report explains the R&D process from laboratory studies to FDA review to approval by the FDA. As an alternative to price controls, competition could be a way for helping to keep prices down.


Clintonomics: An Early Look, Murray L. Weidenbaum Mar 1993

Clintonomics: An Early Look, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

More of an activist administration is expected during President Clinton's first term, which will include more regulation and higher business and upper income bracket taxation. More spending programs are expected as well, which could create opportunities for industrial companies that work with the government.


Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower?, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1993

Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower?, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This article shows how the Asian rim has become the fastest growing part of the world and will continue to do so into the 21st century.


The Economic Challenges Of The Next Four Years, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1993

The Economic Challenges Of The Next Four Years, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

During President Clinton's first term, it is expected that a national industrial and planning policy will be adopted. More government regulation, more taxes for those in the upper brackets, and more spending programs are expected as well.


The Shifting Roles Of Business And Government In The World Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 1992

The Shifting Roles Of Business And Government In The World Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

With the changing global marketplace, business firms, governments, and the consumer need to be able to understand and adapt to changing economic and technological trends in order to benefit.


A Preview Of Clintonomics, Murray L. Weidenbaum Nov 1992

A Preview Of Clintonomics, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper is an assessment of the key economic and business actions that the Clinton Administration will focus on.


Answering The Arguments Against The Consumption Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Answering The Arguments Against The Consumption Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

By shifting U.S. taxation from income to consumption, more revenue would be generated for the U.S. Treasury. This would also enable the American people to enjoy a higher living standard.


Strengthening Israel's Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Strengthening Israel's Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The Israeli economy is very socialized and heavily regulated. Because of this, it suffers from slow growth and high inflation. To change this, Israel needs to become much more privatized.


Pharmaceutical Regulation And Productivity Challenges, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Pharmaceutical Regulation And Productivity Challenges, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

With the costs of pharmaceuticals increasing, steps need to be taken to modernize the approach process in order to reduce the cost of developing new medicines and increase the availability of new and better pharmaceuticals.


Responding To Foreign Competition: Overcoming Government Barriers, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Harvey S. James Jr Sep 1992

Responding To Foreign Competition: Overcoming Government Barriers, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Harvey S. James Jr

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

For a variety of reasons, governments erect barriers to international trade. In order to survive in the global marketplace, companies, therefore, need to overcome these barriers, whether by exporting, acquiring other firms, or entering strategic alliances with other businesses.


The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum Jul 1992

The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This piece points out the benefits of taxing consumption instead of income.


The Defense Industrial Base For The 1990s, Murray L. Weidenbaum May 1992

The Defense Industrial Base For The 1990s, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Although the bottom is not about to fall out of the military market, a tough period of belt tightening has begun. The severity of these adjustments will vary based on the size and relationship of businesses to the defense industry. Ultimately, the military procurement process must be reformed. First, by streamlining the rules. Second, by upgrading the caliber of the people involved in the process. And finally, by changing the incentive structure facing the people who produce the equipment.


Earth Summit, Global Warming, And The Citizen: Economics, Science And Emotion, Murray L. Weidenbaum May 1992

Earth Summit, Global Warming, And The Citizen: Economics, Science And Emotion, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

A barrage of news stories, editorials, and even business advertisements is proclaiming that this is our last chance to save the planet. Examining the evidence for global warming, this paper finds a lack of convincing data to allow any conclusive analysis. Regarding the Earth Summit, it outlines six reasons why the conference is unlikely to achieve its stated goals.


The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1992

The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The governments of most industrialized nations, especially in the European Community, use consumption taxes far more than the United States. Yet a low-saving, slow-growing economy such as the United States would benefit greatly from shifting the national revenue system from taxing income to taxing consumption. That change would provide a powerful incentive to increase the nation's saving and investment and, therefore, economic growth and living standards. This report examines the pros and cons of consumption taxation and also analyzes the major policy alternatives to structuring a new tax of that type.


"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum Mar 1992

"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum points out that the UN-sponsored Earth Summit bases many of its environmental assertions on unsound scientific research.


"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1992

"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Under the guise of cleaning up the environment, the UN sponsored the first-ever "Earth Summit" in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The conference, officially titled the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), was estimated to have been the largest conference ever held in the world at the time. UNCED's wide-ranging agenda obscures any real focus for the meeting, which attempted to synthesize economic and environmental globally. Given this unprecedented scope, much of the material leading up to the conference was hysterical, emotionalized, and unscientific in nature.


Small Wars, Big Defense: Living In A World Of Lower Tensions, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1992

Small Wars, Big Defense: Living In A World Of Lower Tensions, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum discusses ways to reduce military spending in the 1990s.


Regionalization Versus Globalization Of World Trade, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 1991

Regionalization Versus Globalization Of World Trade, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The European Community and the Asian Rim conduct the majority of their trade within their own regions. But international commerce is having more and more impact on the global economy.


A Bipartisan Approach To Economic Policy, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 1991

A Bipartisan Approach To Economic Policy, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Government needs to invest more in an expanding economy. This can be done by 1) devoting more of the budget to civilian R & D, education, and infrastructure; 2) restoring growth incentives such as an investment tax credit; 3) eliminating double taxation of dividends; 4) providing economic rationality to expanding government regulation; and 5) dealing with the inadequate education of a large portion of the labor force.


The Rising Presence Of Government In The Workplace, Murray L. Weidenbaum Nov 1991

The Rising Presence Of Government In The Workplace, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Debates over government regulation are often erroneously framed as a battle between business and the public interest. For government officials, however, regulation is an easy way to advance policy agendas without spending much federal money. But every time the government imposes new standards on the workplace or increases employee benefits, it imposes a more expensive method of production on businesses. Politicians are able to simultaneously vote for the better treatment of employees and criticize "greedy" companies. Consumers, meanwhile, suffer by paying for these hidden taxes.


Technology And Economic Performance: A Rejoinder, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1991

Technology And Economic Performance: A Rejoinder, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Government needs to create a more favorable economic climate in order for research and development to improve.


Technology And Economic Performance: A Different View Of The Federal Role, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1991

Technology And Economic Performance: A Different View Of The Federal Role, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper addresses the key issues in determining what government policy should be in the development and use of technology.


The New Wave Of Environmental Regulation: The Impacts On Business And Consumers, Murray L. Weidenbaum Aug 1991

The New Wave Of Environmental Regulation: The Impacts On Business And Consumers, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Following the regulatory excesses of the 1970s and the reforms of the 1980s, the policy pendulum is swinging back again. On the surface, the government imposing socially desirable requirements on business seems to be a cheap way of achieving national objectives. But every time a government agency attempts to safeguard the environment or foster occupational health or promote product safety, it imposes a more expensive method of production on businesses. Consumers, meanwhile, suffer by paying for these hidden regulations.


The Future Of The U.S. Defense Industry, Murray L. Weidenbaum Jul 1991

The Future Of The U.S. Defense Industry, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The U.S. defense industry is at a fork in the road and faces the prospect of substantial declines. There are two approaches that can be taken: Convert to civilian production or cut back and slim down. Conversion has a great deal of appeal, as it keeps the jobs of defense workers in place. The cut-back alternative is an austerity measure designed to maintain the financial health of the defense firms. The purpose of this paper is to provide some guidance in the selection between these two alternatives.


The Business Response To The Global Marketplace, Murray L. Weidenbaum Mar 1991

The Business Response To The Global Marketplace, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This piece shows the challenges facing American business in the global marketplace.


The New Wave Of Business Regulation, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 1990

The New Wave Of Business Regulation, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper argues that increased regulations lead to increased production costs and therefore higher prices for the average American.


The U.S. Economy And George Bush: A Midterm Review, Murray L. Weidenbaum Nov 1990

The U.S. Economy And George Bush: A Midterm Review, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Following the Reagan presidency, the Bush, Sr. administration has been dealing with reducing huge budget deficits. Corporations will be facing increased foreign competition from the European Community and the Asian Rim nations. But, even with these difficulties, the American economy is still a model followed by other countries.