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The richest, the strongest, the most competitive
and flexible market economy, the North America has always been a
land of opportunities for all, with no barriers of nationality,
religion, gender, what guarantees a high level of individual freedom.
Is all this fading away?
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Essay:
The image of America in the world and how to improve it
An opinion from RAND Corporation research.
Essay
Essay:
The State of Working America 2004-05
The executive summary of an analysis of USA society.
Essay
Link to: Republican
Party Policy Commitee
Link to: Democratic
Party Policy Committee
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Economic
data: US data for all the variables in IS-LM model
Comprehensive of 54 variables in long-term annual
and quarterly time-series, this US dataset is excellent for students
to test the model as well as for researchers to develop original
reflections.
MS Excel [104
KB]
Economic
data: National
income and gross national product, by components - Canada (1926-1976)
Economic
data: Human development index (162 countries)
A
rich report of reflections and data.
PDF
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Economic
data: Gross domestic expenditure on R&D by source of funds
in 71 countries in USA, Canada and other areas
MS
Excel
Economic
data: US
Science and R&D: key figures
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Book:
High-Tech Start-Ups and Industry Dynamics in Silicon Valley
Using two unique longitudinal databases, Junfu
Zhang investigates firm formation, growth, mortality, and migration
in Silicon Valley during the 1990s and explain how the region evolved.
After extraordinary economic and innovation success in the late
1990s, Silicon Valley entered a deep recession in 2001. This study
seeks to answer tough policy-relevant and empirical questions of
interest everywhere in the world.
Book
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Link to: Council
on competitiveness
U.S.
Competitiveness 2001: Strengths, Vulnerabilities and Long-Term Priorities
[6.2 MB]
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Economic
data: Stock exchange index for
10 markets (S&P500, Nikkei, Dax, Cac,...) - Daily quotes (1995-2000)
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data: Environmental respect data: the number of ISO14000 certified
firms in 98 American and non-American countries - a time-series
MS
Excel
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Economic
data: Composition of public expenditure
(education, health, defence...) - 69 countries in North America
and other areas (1975-1985)
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Economic
data: Total
expenditure on health in OECD countries (1960-2000)
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Economic
data: Health and
disease statistics worldwide
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Economic
data: Productivity
in 99 countries (1950-2000)
Direct link to Groningen Growth and Development Centre and The
Conference Board, Total Economy Database, February 2004, at http://www.ggdc.net,
where you'll find a lot of useful industry and macro data about
USA, Canada, and other countries.
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Economic
data: Comparable wages for 162 jobs in 132 American and non-American
countries
The
MS Excel file with a user-friendly interface of the excellent dataset
by Freeman - Oostendorp. Long-term
time-series from 1983 to 1999. This data set allows for comparison
of wages across countries for the
same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled
and unskilled works.
MS
Excel [2.9
MB]
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Economic
data: Education attainments in reading
Compare
USA and Canada with 33 other nations in the world thanks to the
exceptional survey by IEA’s
Study of Reading Literacy
(PIRL), with microdata
available.
PDF
[8 MB]
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Economic
data: Personal
and government savings in USA, Japan, Germany: a short-run comparison
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Economic
data: Tax
revenue in OECD countries (1966-2000) plus a comparison in tax systems
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Economic
data: Longitudinal micro-datasets of USA families on a subannual
basis
Cash
and noncash income, taxes, assets, liabilities, education, age,
and participation in government transfer programs.
SIPP
free data allow the government to evaluate the effectiveness
of federal, state, and local programs
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page
Essay:
Urban planning in USA: a chronology
Essay
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Economic
data: US dollar against 200 currencies in the world
In
one sheet you can track and compare the yearly exchange
rate dynamics of 200 world currencies on the long term compared
to the US dollar. Currency crises, fixed exchange rates and wide
fluctuations in a fully international perspective.
MS
Excel
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Economic
data: Profit ratio to employed capital: an international comparison
of profitability over time (34 countries)
PDF
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Economic
data: M1
data - a long-term money time-series
for 19 countries (USA, UK, France,...)
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Economic
data: Origins and destinations in world
trade - Trade flows over time
MS
Excel
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Economic
data: Gender
statistics from all over the world
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