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Index accidental deaths, 239 atmosphere, global temperatures and, accounting practices, governments and, 14–15 90, 98n1 automatic stabilizers, defi cits and, 88 administrative costs, taxes and, 146 advance market commitments, 52–59 baby boomers, housing prices and, 290, affordable housing funds, 300–301, 294 302–303 bailouts, government, 133, 292 agriculture: global warming and, 6, 16; Baker, Dean, 267 land prices and, 277 Bangladesh, 11, 16, 23 Aid to Families with Dependent bankruptcy, Social Security and, Children (AFDC), 186. See also 136–138 welfare reform banks: foreign, 40, 41, 42, 100–101; real alternative energy sources. See energy estate futures, trading in, 285; taxes Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), 96, and, 155 142–143, 144, 154, 155 Barder, Owen, 38 Alternative Trade Adjustment Barrow, Lisa, 184 Assistance, 48 Beacon Hill neighborhood, Boston, American Community Survey, 213, 214 Mass., 280 American Economic Association Becker, Gary, 131, 210, 235, 248, 252, Meetings, 258–259 257 American Enterprise Institute, 196, 299 behavioral economics, 283 American Jobs Creation Act (2004), benefi ts: of offshoring, 44, 46–47; 100 Social Security and, 117–118, 121, Amicus (labor union), 49 122, 123, 124, 132, 136, 137. See also Amiti, Mary, 46 cost-benefi t analysis Angell, Cynthia, 269–270 Bergmann, Barbara, 108 annuity payments, Social Security and, Bernanke, Ben, 269 121 Berndt, Ernst, 58–59 anti-violence activism, death penalty Besharov, Douglas, 196 and, 240 Beverly Hills, California, 280 arms races, 172–173 bias, in economic research papers, 259 Arrow, Kenneth, 3–4 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 53, assets and liabilities, of federal 56 governments, 90 Bilmes, Linda, 80 atemporal neutrality, 145 Blank, Rebecca, 183 305

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