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NewsLink is the quarterly newsletter of the Beacon Hill Institute
for Public Policy Research at Suffolk University.
Vol
9, No. 3- Spring 2005
Hollywood and the AntiCapitalist Mentality: Georgian Parliamentarians
visit BHI; Institute takes interstate competitiveness findings to
Beacon Hill; Book Review: Understanding
the Process of Economic Change by Douglass C. North.
Vol
9, No. 2- Winter 2005
Letter from Kiev, State of the Household Survey 2005 Analysis, Job
Shadow 2005, BHI visits Ghana; Book Reviews:
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Suroweiki and Choice: The Best
of Reason reviewed.
Vol
9, No. 1- Fall 2004
The end of Mass. & NH border wars? Quick Chart: U.S. and European
work effort and taxes; Book Review: America's
Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake by Howard Husock reviewed.
Coverage of BHI's press conference on drug reimportation.
Vol
8, No. 4- Summer 2004
E pluribus obesus: How Uncle Sam weighs us down. Quick Chart: When
government saves less... Book Review: A
Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy; BHI interns in
the middle of summer's big story. The venture capital gap and the
Commonwealth.
Vol
8, No. 3- Spring 2004
The making of an anti-tax activist in Winthrop; The enduring myth
of more money for better schools; Quick Chart: Looking for jobs
in all the wrong places. Book Review: Cato Institute's The Half-Life
of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues.
Vol
8, No. 2- Winter 2004
Pulling the dents out of Bay State auto insurance; State of the
Household Survey 2004 Views vary on outsourcing, gambling and smoking
ban. Coming and going: Three population tales: A look at the European
Union and the United States on immigration: Book Review: Gregg Easterbrook's
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel
Worse
Vol
8, No. 1- Fall 2003
Questioning the wisdom of statewide smoking bans. Shaking up the
Electoral College for Massachusetts. Net gain? State fee hikes cut
into tax cuts. Looking beyond the yuan; Mass. exports to China.
Book Review: Housing with other people's money.
Vol
7, No. 4- Summer 2003
Navigating the political geography of tax preferences in Massachusetts.
Michael New on tax reformers' need for a new tax cut strategy. Charitable
choice revisited. Tax Justice; The Ongoing Debate reviewed.
Vol
7, No. 3- Spring 2003
Plan that vacation but don't forget to pack for the Nanny State.
How the Cold War was won and why; an interview with Warren Norquist.
Book Review: Bill Emmott's 20:21 Vision reviewed.
Vol
7, No. 2- Winter 2003
The history of Route 128, an online conversation with Alan Earls,
Author of Route 128 and the Birth of the Age of High Tech.
State of the Household Survey 2003. Should biotech get tax breaks?
William Easterly's Elusive Quest for Growth reviewed.
Vol
7, No. 1- Fall 2002
Costing out the original Thanksgiving dinner from 1621. Expensing
stock options. Jeff Madrick's Why Economies Grow reviewed.
Vol
6, No. 4 - Summer 2002
A better tax cap for the Bay State, The failed promise of education
reform, BHI 2002 Gubernatorial Survey on Tax and Fiscal Policy.
Cato Institute's Public Choice: reviewed.
Vol
6, No. 3 - Spring 2002
Economics, game theory and film marketing; the feeding frenzy on
Beacon Hill; STAMP in Florida.
Vol.
6, No. 2 - Winter 2002
Senior citizens working to pay property taxes; State of the Household
Survey 2002; State Competitiveness Report 2001 released; Mass. trying
to postpone income tax rollback.
Vol.
6, No. 1- Fall 2001
Hard times for the cranberry industry; Boston CPA tax increases
would cost jobs; pitfalls of local broadband service.
Vol.
5, no 4 - Summer 2001
STAMP in NYC; selling sausage at Fenway Park; cigarette taxes; summer
internship program launched.
Vol
5, No. 3 - Spring 2001
Water bans during drought; BHI in New Hampshire; voluntary taxes;
a living wage at Harvard.
Vol
5, No. 2 -Winter 2001
Commuter parking scarcity; State of Household Survey 2001; President
Bush's tax cuts; MCAS testing.
Vol
5, No. 1 - Fall 2000
Electric cars; Question 4 approved; Election 2000 analysis; Social
Security earnings test.
Vol
4, No. 4 - Summer 2000
Question 4 would create jobs; taking on the EPA; increasing MBTA
fares; universal health care in Mass.; BHI builds five more STAMP
models.
Vol
4, No. 3 - Spring 2000
Case for a state charitable tax deduction; low-flow toilets and
showerheads; Community Preservation Act; legal needs of lower-income
people; regulating prescription drugs.
Vol
4, No. 2 - Winter 2000
Why shipping wine is illegal; Big Dig cost overrun; State of the
Household 2000; a review of Paul Krugman's The Return of Depression
Economics
Vol
4, No. 1 - Fall 1999
Abolishing the penny; Ray Shamie remembered; subsidizing the MBTA;
state tax cuts.
Vol
3, No. 4 - Summer 1999
Tribute to Ray Shamie, BHI Founder, The Real Surplus Story -- When
Government Saves More We Save Less: STAMP applied to VA tax debate.
Review of Lester Thurow's Building Wealth: The New Rules for
Individuals, Companies and Nations in a Knowledge-based Economy.
Vol
3, No. 3 - Spring 1999
Tame the MBTA beast. Lawrence Lindsey's Economic Puppetmasters
reviewed, Unemployment insurance tax cut will create jobs.
Vol
3, No. 2 - Winter 1999
Future of the Massachusetts economy; STAMP in Texas; state economy
informal survey results.
Vol
3, No. 1 - Fall 1998
Welfare reform; future of the state's economy; Question 3; Massachusetts
exports to Asia; saving Social Security.
Vol
2, No. 4 - Summer 1998
Massachusetts budget surplus; Internet taxes; MCI/WorldCom merger
in court; forward funding the MBTA.
Vol.
2, No 3 - Spring 1998
Returning the budget surplus to taxpayers; charitable tax credit;
Gubernatorial tax-cut scorecard; the dairy industry.
Vol
2. no 2 - Winter 1998
Tax-credit survey results; Education Reform Act of 1993; taxes and
the holiday season; STAMP in New Jersey; first State of the Household
survey; MWRA bonds.
Vol
2. No 1 - Fall -1997
BHI State of the Household Survey: Mass. residents support tax cuts,
tax credits, This holiday season, save a place for Uncle Sam, Edmund
Phelps's Rewarding Work reviewed.
Vol
1, No. 4 - Summer 1997
Cutting the Mass. tax rate to 5 percent; the federal tax cut; Mass.
tort law; BHI at ALEC; the economics of regionalization.
Vol
1, No. 3 - Spring 1997
Mass. FY '98 budget analysis; electric power monopolies; STAMP in
Iowa; BHI at APEE conference; charitable tax credit.
Vol
1, No. 2 - Winter 1997
BHI Compassion Tax Credit forum; STAMP in Oklahoma and Iowa; tax-credit
and charitable organization survey results; BHI begins tort law
project.
Vol
1, No. 1 - Fall 1996
Tax credits for charitable contributions; across-the-board tax cut;
budget surpluses; household income chart; property rights of IOLTA
funds.
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