[...]... Mark Turner Professor, School of Administrative Studies, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Enbao Wang Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii Feng Xiao Professor, University of Hertfordshire, Hertford, England INTRODUCTION Stuart S Nagel University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Win-win or superoptimizing analysis of public policy problems... University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Yat Lun Chan Professor, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, Scotland Rupa Chanda Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India Rekha Datta Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Monmouth University, West Long Beach, New Jersey Zhong Zhu Ding Professor, Department of Political Science, New School University,... Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey Maria Chan Morgan Professor, Department of Politics, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana ´ Rosa Mule Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom G Mac Nie Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia Dora Orlansky Professor,... International, Department of Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hertford, England Henry E Kilpatrick, Jr Research Fellow, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia ¨ Thomas Konig Professor, University of Uonstanz, Uonstanz, Germany Mark Owen Lombardi Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government and World Affairs, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida Miriam... Introduction xxxi This Handbook on Economic Policy contains chapters dealing with the above and other economic issues The chapters are organized in terms of economic policy in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America/North America ENDNOTES 1 For further details on win-win analysis, see S Nagel, Super-Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy: Basic Concepts and Principles (Quorum, 1997); S Nagel, Public Policy Evaluation:... Political Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Kenneth C Shadlen Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Niels Christian Sidenius Associate Professor and Dean, Department of Politi˚ ˚ cal Science, University of Arhus, Arhus, Denmark Gwynneth Singleton Senior Lecturer, School of Administrative Studies, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia... of the Republic of Latvia Maiga Dzervite 343 From Corporatism to Etatism: German Policy Networks Before and After Unification ¨ Thomas Konig 367 Political Economy of Income Distribution in Britain: Demography, Market, and Party Politics, 1979–1987 ´ Rosa Mule 387 National Industrial Policy in the Context of Supranational and Subnational Policy Expansion Niels Christian Sidenius 411 Divergent Paths of. .. the disruption of displaced firms and individuals As applied to economics, we are especially talking about the alleged tradeoffs among (1) unemployment and inflation, (2) economic growth and displaced workers, (3) increased government spending, reduced taxes, and a reduced deficit, and (4) the tradeoff between capitalism and socialism We will also briefly refer to the economic policy problems of land, labor,... jobs and careers 10 Conservation of natural resources and a productive, healthful environment Other important economic indicators besides economic growth include unemployment, inflation, and measures of income equality Big economic growth is offset if those other indicators worsen or do not improve.2 B Displaced Workers and Firms Displacement of labor is the result of (1) productivity downsizing, (2)... Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Laure Paquette Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada ¨ Sang-Chul Park Professor, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Go¨ teborg, Sweden teborg University, Go Louwrens Pretorius Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Africa, . Golembiewski 82. Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 83. Handbook of Global Technology Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 84. Handbook of Criminal. Steel 75. Handbook of State Government Administration, edited by John J. Gargan 76. Handbook of Global Legal Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 77. Handbook of