1st Edition
Economic Policy, Financial Markets, And Economic Growth
This book presents the papers and discussant comments delivered at the first Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation conference, held October 21–23, 1992, in Santa Monica, California. The papers offer findings on links between economic policy and economic growth. .
Biography
Benjamin Zycher is vice president for research at the Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation and the editor of the Institute newsletter, Jobs & Capital. He is also a visiting professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His area of expertise is the analysis of economic regulation and government behavior. He has published many articles and monographs in a wide range of subject areas, from defense economics and the analysis of Soviet economic conditions to the effects of government regulation on energy and environmental policy. Among his recent papers are The Efficient Rise of Public and Private Debt, Price Controls, Direct Democracy, and Taxation by Regulation, Environmental Degradation under Eastern European Socialism, and Military Dimensions of Communist Systems. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972, his M.P.P. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1979. Lewis C. Solmon is president of the Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation in Los Angeles. Prior to assuming this position in July 1991, he served as dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education for six years. He has served on the faculties of UCLA, CUNY, and Purdue, and currently is a professor emeritus at UCLA. He has published two dozen books and monographs and more than 60 articles in scholarly and