Reaganomics Goes Global: What Can the EU, Russia and Other Transition Countries Learn from the USA?

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword; W.A.Niskanen & L.Balcerowicz Preface List of Contributors Acknowledgements PART 1: THE U.S. ECONOMIC MODEL FOUNDATIONS OF THEU.S. ECONOMIC MODEL Lessons from America's Founding Fathers and U.S. Experience; S.H.Hanke Lord Acton on the Origins of American Liberty and Prosperity; K.Lazarski The Cultural Roots of the American Business Model; M.Durska Constitutional Foundations of American Capitalism; C.A.Bates CHARACTER AND EFFECTIVENESS OF U.S. ECONOMIC POLICY The Evolution of U.S. Economic Policy in the 1980s; S.F.Hayward Economic Policy During the Clinton Administration; W.A.Niskanen The Economic Policy of George W. Bush: A Continuation of Reaganomics?; W.Bienkowski PART 2: APPLICABILITY OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC MODEL THE U.S. ECONOMIC EXPERI ENCE AND ITS APPLICABLILITY TO COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION Successes and Failures in Catching-up: The Post-communist Case; L.Balcerowicz The American Economic System: A Model for Poland?; W.A.Niskanen What Has America to Offer?; D.Lipton American Economic Experience: Russian Perspective, Possibilities and Limits of Application from a Russian Perspective; R.Khasbulatov Why Russia Cannot Abide the American Economic Model: Round Peg/Square Hole; S.Rosefielde China versus the Orthodoxy: State and Ownership Reforms in Transition Economies; J.B.Miller & S.Tenev THE U.S. ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE AND EU ECONOMIC POLICIES Economic Reform in the European Union. Will the "Lisbon" EU Catch Up with the US?; M-J.Radlo The EU Concept of Cohesion: Is it Compatible with the Anglo-Saxon Model?; J.Bradley Ireland's Delayed if Spectacular Convergence; D.McCoy Convergence and Divergence of the European Union: Are the European Economies to be "Americanized"?; S.Kowalik Political Integration and Fiscal Federalism in the American Dollar Area and the Eurozone; S.Bukowski Toward an Efficient Labour Market Model in the EU: To Centralize or Not to Centralize?; W.S.Siebert ECONOMIC POLICY CHOICES IN EUROPE: PERSPECTIVE OF THE U.S. MODEL PERFORMANCE Discussion; J.K.Bielecki, J.Bradley, M.Goldman, S.Gomulka, R.Khasbulatov, A.K.Kozminski, W.A.Niskanen Conclusions Index