La Follette Publications: Primers, Reports, and Summaries
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From Sandbags to Sanity: The Policy Implications of the Midwest Floods of 2008
(2009-04-20)When record floods swept through the Midwest in the summer of 2008, some local government officials put out a call for extra sandbags as their primary response. Others dusted off incomplete and out-of-date floodplain maps ... -
La Follette and His Legacy
(1984) -
Growing Pains for the Euro
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Economic Outlook for Late 1999
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Economic Outlook for 2001
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Wisconsin Manufacturing in the Global Economy: its Past, Present, and Future
(2000-10)In this paper, I briefly sketch how the New Economy forces of globalization and technology have affected Wisconsin?s manufacturing in the recent past, and I note the challenges these forces will pose in the future. The ... -
What Makes Hierarchical Networks Succeed? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
(2006-11-02)This paper examines response problems to Hurricane Katrina from a network perspective, identifying how network task, capacity and coordination factors weakened the response. The impact of Katrina called for a response ... -
Medical Governance: Are We Ready to Prescribe?
(2006-11-03)Federal and state governments in the United States play substantial and complex roles in promoting, subsidizing, regulating, and even providing health care in the United States. Financial pressures on Medicare and Medicaid, ... -
Economic Outlook for 1997
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Implementing Chicago's Plan to Transform Basic Housing
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What Do We Know About Taxes and Economic Development?
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Consequences of Constitutional Revenue and Spending Limits
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Constitutional Limits to State and Local Spending
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The Middle Way to Property Tax Reform
(2005-01-19)