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PRAISE FOR TRILLION DOLLAR ECONOMISTS "A tour de force showcase of progress attained by the marriage of economics and human imagination. A must read for innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and students of economics hoping to chart a better future." --Jay Walker, founder of Priceline and Walker Digital "Bob Litan's combination of sprightly prose, personal touch, wide range, and enthusiasm for his subject-which might well be called 'what ...

Subscribe to "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services" The advancement toward a global financial market is examined in this third in a series of annual volumes on the financial services industry from the Brookings institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

The seventh in a series of annual volumes on the financial sector from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on public policy issues confronting the insurance industry.

Just over 10 years ago, in October 1987, the stock market suffered its deepest short-term plunge since the Great Depression. This first in a series of annual volumes on the financial services industry from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania examines the 1987 crash and its aftermath.

The sixth in a series of annual volumes on the financial sector from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on financial conglomerates: strategies used, associated risks, strategic positioning, appropriate disclosure, and how best to regulate them.

This annual series from the Brookings Institution and the Financial Institutions Center at the Wharton School provides timely and insightful analyses of the financial services industry.

Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended.

In this book, a distinguished group of scholars, attorneys, and judges examine the civil jury system and discuss whether certain features should be modified or reformed. The book features papers presented at a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Insti-tution and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, together with an introductory chapter by Robert E. Litan. While the authors present competing views of the objectives of the...

A financial system is only as strong as the governing practices and institutions of its participants. The challenge to build efficient and accountable financial institutions that promote confidence is a problem that private financial sector executives and policymakers confront together.

This annual series from the Brookings Institution and the Financial Institutions Center at the Wharton School provides timely and insightful analyses of the financial services industry.