Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

by M J Trebilcock and Michael J. Trebilcock

Book Overview

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit government compensation, grandfathering, phased or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190456949
• ISBN13: 9780190456948
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"