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Gary J. Schmitt

The Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures: 2011–24

$18.00

The first 13 of the AEI Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures are now collected in one volume. Given by distinguished scholars, judges, and political figures—and edited by AEI Senior Fellow Gary J. Schmitt—the lectures cover a host of topics providing a deeper understanding of the US constitutional order and its underlying principles. The volume also reissues a 2011 panel discussion by Christopher DeMuth, Leon R. Kass, and Jeremy A. Rabkin honoring longtime AEI colleague Walter Berns’s still relevant and important scholarship on the Constitution and the American republic.

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Scott Winship

Doing Right by Kids

$16.99

Material hardship among American children has never been lower. This seeming victory in the War on Poverty, however, has failed to loosen the connection between family origins and where kids end up. Children born to the most disadvantaged parents today are no less likely than in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. Indeed, because of the perverse disincentives in our safety net, policy may have simultaneously reduced hardship while impeding upward mobility. More generally, the progressive assumption that what poor children need to advance primarily involves more money is a dubious one.

But if progressive proposals to expand the opportunities of poor kids have disappointed, the challenges those children and adolescents face have never sufficiently preoccupied the right. Conservatives are appropriately skeptical of government’s ability to influence behaviors and values or to manage initiatives effectively. Their concerns about the federal government’s proper role in social policy are well-grounded. But the moral imperative to do right by kids—to affirm the American Dream—remains.

This volume provides a set of ideas to do just that. The proposals are grounded in the insight that greater opportunity requires shoring up the relationships of children and adolescents and the strength of the institutions to which they are connected—in short, rebuilding social capital. And they embrace a spirit of innovation. Expanding opportunity requires experimentation with new approaches, many of which will fail, to identify scalable effective policies. But identify them we must.

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Edward C. Banfield

Government Project

$14.95

Government Project tells the story of an attempt by the US government to remake the lives of some of its citizens by establishing a cooperative farm in Pinal County, Arizona, in 1937. These individuals were among the most desperately poor and disadvantaged in the nation.

Casa Grande Valley Farms was an elaborate venture that provided the Americans who volunteered to settle there with housing, work, and the opportunity to earn income. For five years, the farm succeeded. The revenues from the sale of its crops gave the Casa Grande settlers material comfort and wealth far beyond what they had ever possessed.

But in the farm’s seventh year of operation, the inhabitants shuttered it and walked away with hardly anything, to the shock and dismay of the government officials overseeing it.

Government Project explains what went wrong at Casa Grande. In telling this story, it illuminates larger truths about human nature and the limits of governance.

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Yuval Levin

Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution

$18.00

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the fourth volume of this series, legal scholars and political scientists examine the many ways in which the founding generation understood the “unalienable rights” immortalized by the Declaration of Independence. Although the Declaration described the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a “self-evident” truth, this characterization belied the Revolutionary era’s complex discourse on the origins of political rights and their role in sustaining a political community.

Delving into these debates reveals how the American Revolution encoded a productive tension between individual rights and communal responsibilities at the nation’s founding.

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Dr. Steven F. Hayward

Mere Environmentalism

$9.95

As debates over climate change rage in Washington and American consumers become ever more conscientious about 'going green,' evangelical Christians are increasingly concerned about the proper relationship between faith and environmentalism. The notion of human 'stewardship' over God's creation could be a groundbreaking opportunity for cooperation between evangelicals, the scientific community, and environmental activists. However, a deep understanding of environmental issues from a distinctively Christian perspective will inevitably complicate partnerships with those who approach the subject from conventional secular viewpoints. Although there is some common ground, there remain important differences between Christian and secular perspectives on the environment. Are human beings merely one 'part' of the undifferentiated whole of nature? Or, worse, are humans a blight and a drain on God's perfect creation? Do we really 'own' the land we live on and the plants and animals that provide our sustenance? The answers to these questions begin to form a Christian approach to solving ecological problems. In Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World, Steven F. Hayward provides a thorough examination of the philosophical presuppositions underlying today's environmentalist movement and the history of policies intended to alleviate environmental challenges such as overpopulation and global warming. Relying on Scripture to understand God's created order, Hayward offers an insightful reflection on the relationship between humans and the natural world.

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Gordon H. Hanson

Regulating Low-Skilled Immigration in the United States

$31.00

With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low-skilled foreign workforce, there is widespread agreement that the current U.S. immigration system is broken. Past reform agendas have emphasized strengthening border security, increasing the number of visas for foreign guest workers, and defining a path to legal residence for illegal immigrants already living in the country. When the Obama administration addresses immigration reform-as it has promised to do before 2012-should it pick up where previous reform proposals left off? In Regulating Low Skilled Immigration in the United States, Gordon H. Hanson contends that efforts to curtail illegal entry will fail unless policymakers design a system that is responsive to market signals that encourage individuals to move from low-wage labor markets in regions such as Central America to the more robust labor market in United States. On the whole, immigration benefits the U.S. economy by raising national income and making domestic capital more productive. However, increasing the low-skilled population may also increase the net tax burden on native residents. Successful reform depends on attracting immigrants with strong incentives to be productive laborers who will not place excessive demands on public services. Illegal immigration, as regulated by market forces, largely satisfies these criteria, but at the cost of undermining the rule of law and leaving the immigrant population unprotected. To create a better system for managing low-skilled immigration, Hanson argues, Congress should preserve the features of the current regime that serve the country well and strip away the features that corrode civil society and harm immigrants.

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Kenneth B. Pyle

The Japanese Question:

$15.00

In this update of the 1992 edition, the author describes the emergence of Japan's new Asian strategy since the Cold War and the dilemmas it poses for American policymakers.

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Dr. Christopher Conover

American Health Economy Illustrated

$19.95

How much does the average American spend on health care? Are costs and quality of health care equal across US states? Do Americans get good value for money spent on health services compared with citizens of other developed nations? Are current health spending trends sustainable through the 21st century? All too often, policymakers and the public alike form judgments about health care based on myths and misconceptions. A common refrain is that US health care is too expensive — both in costs to the taxpayer and costs to the consumer. But few realize that despite its lack of national health insurance, the United States leads nearly all other industrialized nations in the share of health spending paid by third parties, whether public or private. Americans, therefore, are less sensitive to health care prices than citizens of other nations. American Health Economy Illustrated sifts through nearly a century of data to examine — and debunk — the most common myths about the US health care system. With an unbiased, just-the-facts approach and hundreds of color illustrations, Christopher J. Conover assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current system and evaluates whether current health cost trends are sustainable. Wide-ranging, accessible, and provocative, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of American health care.

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George J. Benston

Regulating Financial Markets:

$16.95

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

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Herbert Stein

Presidential Economics:

$19.75

This book examines the events, policies, and personalities that have shaped our economy for a half century.

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Ross D. Eckert

Securing a Safer Blood Supply: Two Views

$12.00

In response to renewed concerns over illnesses related to blood transfusions, this volume provides two diverging perspectives on how a high-quality blood supply can best be achieved and maintained.

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Kenneth J. Arrow

Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation

$9.95

This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.

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Kevin A. Hassett

Transition Costs of Fundamental Tax Reform

$16.95

The authors of this volume challenge the common perception that the removal of old distortions from the tax system would seriously hurt segments of the economy.

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Christina Hoff Sommers

Freedom Feminism

$5.99

Women’s equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute?

In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today, Christina Hoff Sommers seeks to recover the lost history of American feminism by introducing readers to conservative feminism’s forgotten heroines. More importantly, she demonstrates that a modern version of conservative feminism—in which women are free to employ their equal status to pursue happiness in their own distinctive ways—holds the key to a feminist renaissance. Freedom Feminism is a primer in the Values & Capitalism series intended for college students.

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Joseph Bessette

Toward a More Perfect Union:

$14.95

This book contains major writings by five of America's most distinguished political scientists and political theorists.

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Dr. Charles Murray

In Our Hands

$16.95

Imagine that the United States were to scrap all its income transfer programs—including Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare—and give every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life.This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. First laid out by Charles Murray a decade ago, the updated edition reflects economic developments since that time. Murray, who previous books include Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, demonstrates that the Plan is financially feasible and the uses detailed analysis to argue that many goals of the welfare state—elimination of poverty, comfortable retirement for everyone, universal access to healthcare—would be better served under the Plan than under the current system. Murray’s goal, shared by Left and Right, is a society in which everyone, including the unluckiest among us, has the opportunity and means to construct a satisfying life. In Our Hands offers a rich and startling new way to think about how that goal

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Robert Maranto

The Free Inquiry Papers

$18.00

In universities and other truth-seeking institutions, free inquiry is under threat.

The practice of free inquiry rests on tolerating dissent and promoting data and logical argument over feelings, status, party rule, or group affiliation. Many of the most noted successes of the West are the fruits of free inquiry, but this legacy is now at risk. Furthermore, our education system is failing to teach the values of free inquiry and free speech, which are vital to preparing citizens to work alongside those with differing opinions.

In The Free Inquiry Papers, an impressive array of academics come together to address this urgent problem. Across 21 chapters, the authors lay out the arguments for free inquiry, document the current threats, and offer solutions to protect and advance free inquiry. The authors represent a range of academic and political backgrounds, but they agree on three fundamental perspectives. First, the current higher education regime now prioritizes activism and status over the search for truth, especially in the social sciences and humanities. This is neither politically nor scientifically sustainable. Second, improvements are possible and would enhance the institutions’ validity and credibility. Third, no one has all the answers.

The erosion of support for free inquiry matters for everyone, but it is especially dangerous for the institutions whose mission is the production of ideas and knowledge. If we lose our ability to debate and discuss ideas openly and honestly, then both science and democracy will yield to a new dark age.

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Christopher DeMuth

The Neoconservative Imagination:

$12.95

To honor Irving Kristol's 75th birthday, a who's who of scholars and friends--from Norman Podhoretz to Leon R. Kass to Robert H. Bork to James Q. Wilson--celebrate his ideas and ideals, his contributions to American life as the nation's leading neoconservative and his enrichment of the lives and friends of colleagues.

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Mark V. Pauly

Responsible Tax Credits for Health Insurance

$10.00

The authors chronicle changes in U.S. attitudes about health care and consider policy trade-offs and problems of a tax credit/voucher system to finance health insurance.

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Michael Novak

Toward a Theology of the Corporation

$10.50

This book tackles a basic moral question: "Can a Christian work for a corporation?" Michael Novak's answer? "Yes!"

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John C. Fortier

After the People Vote, Fourth Edition

$25.00

Now in its fourth edition, After the People Vote remains an indispensable concise guide to help students and all citizens understand this critical and controversial American political institution. The mechanisms that lead to the final selection of a president are complex. Some procedures are sketched out in the original Constitution and its amendments, and others in federal law, congressional rules and procedures, state laws, and political party rules. This new, expanded edition of After the People Vote—featuring new sections on public opinion on the Electoral College and proposals for amending the Electoral College system—explains how our system of electing a president works, especially the processes that kick in after the November general election date.

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Robert L. Woodson

Youth Crime and Urban Policy: A View from the Inner City

$12.00

This book explores the role of local community-based organizations that have successfully controlled youth crime in major urban centers in this country.

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James Johnston

Driving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice

$16.95

This book sheds light on environmental and other issues, including global warming, that will deeply affect the future of the automobile and of all American industry.

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Robert H. Haverman

Earnings Inequality:

$9.95

The author analyzes the change in male earnings inequality since the mid-1970s to see how much is attributable to changes in labor market opportunities and how much to changes in work choices.

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Christopher DeMuth

Religion and the American Future

$25.00

Religion and the American Future is a lively, learned dialogue on the role of religion in American society.

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Howard R. Penniman

New Zealand at the Polls

$20.00

New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978, edited by Howard R. Penniman, documents the latest political upheaval in a country long known for its placid public life.

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Douglas J. Besharov

Family violence: Research and public policy issues

$25.00

This book, a conference volume compiled by scholars and federal offices, examines family violence and the quality of research contributed to the field thus far.

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Robert Goldberg

Vaccines for Children Program: A Critique

$9.95

The Vaccines for Children Program was designed to be a single-payer system for childhood vaccines, covering everyone up to the age of eighteen, but today the program is in disarray.

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Henry N. Butler

Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy

$12.95

This book explores the effects of current regulatory policies and proposes a radical restructuring of the environmental regulatory authority.

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Dr. Vincent H. Smith

Agricultural Policy in Disarray

$50.00

From any coherent policy perspective, agricultural policy in the United States is in total disarray. Not surprisingly, persistent and pervasive rent-seeking by well-funded lobbies explains many of the complex and often internally inconsistent federal programs that fall under the umbrella of US agricultural policy. This two-volume examination of US agricultural policies includes analyses on the federal crop insurance program, the sugar program, constraints on domestic production, and policy-mandated price discrimination. Those subsidy programs and other forms of support are deliberately structured to funnel the vast majority of their benefits to large farm businesses and, in the case of agricultural insurance, an entire segment of the insurance industry that would not otherwise exist. They do nothing to alleviate rural poverty and in most cases encourage farm and other agricultural businesses to waste some of society’s scarce resources. Some federal programs do provide benefits for society as a whole. However, collusion among lobbies with competing interests has caused many of those programs to be inefficient. Agricultural Policy in Disarray provides fascinating, detailed, and contemporary evidence of how rent-seeking by small, well-organized interest groups results in government policies that do little good and much harm.

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Dwight H. Perkins

The Challenges of China's Growth

$15.00

China's economic growth since 1978 has transformed the country. People are richer, freer, and healthier than they have ever been, and if current growth rates are sustained, poverty will be eliminated in China by 2025.

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Rosemary Gibson Kern

Medicaid & Other Experiments in State Health Policy

$12.00

This book examines two experiments in Massachusetts, outlining some of the key elements of their successes and failures. It also examines a different approach to cost containment-the development of the global hospital budgeting system.

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John H. Makin

United States Fiscal Policy: Its Effects at Home and Abroad

$12.00

In two essays, John H. Makin traces the unusual path of US fiscal policy in the first half of the 1980s.

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Martin Cave

Telecommunications Liberation on Two Sides of the Atlantic

$10.00

In response to the whirlwind electronics revolution of the 1990's, the European Union, Canada, and the United States launched new liberalization policies aimed at opening all telecommunications markets to competition. This report presents two views of the progress towards competitionone for North America and one for Europe.

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Mickey D. Levy

Achieving Financial Solvency in Social Security

$12.00

The Social Security Amendments of 1972 capped nearly four decades of continuous expansion and benefit increases by boosting benefits a generous 20 percent and indexing benefits to inflation beginning in 1975. At the time, the social security trust fund balances were considered sufficient to absorb any temporary deficit caused by adverse conditions, while projections based on robust fertility rates and a stable and growing economy showed large long-run actuarial surpluses. Since 1973, social security financing has not been viewed through such rose-colored glasses. Annual reports of the trustees of the social security system began projecting long-run deficits based on lower long-run fertility rates and higher rates of inflation and unemployment than were assumed previously. An indexing flaw in the 1972 amendments was detected in 1974 which, until modified by the 1977 amendments, added substantially to projected long-run deficits of the program. Also in the mid-1970s, high rates of unemployment and inflation, coupled with declining growth rates of real wages, precipitated a rapid decline in trust fund balances. In 1977, Congress responded to the short-run financial crisis by increasing payroll taxes, but it largely ignored the long-run financing issue.

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Jason F. Shogren

The Benefits and Costs of the Kyoto Protocol

$9.95

This book considers the driving elements behind the benefits and costs of climate protection via Kyoto or similar international agreements that follow.

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Patricia M. Danson

Rate Regulation of Worker's Compensation Insurance:

$14.95

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

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Robert A. Goldwin

Constitution Makers on Constitution Making:

$20.00

In eight pairs of papers, written from differing perspectives, this book tells the story of the writing of the constitutions of France, Greece, the United States, Yugoslavia, Spain, Egypt, Venezuela, and Nigeria.

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Paul Teske

Deregulating Freight Transportation: Delivering the Goods

$39.95

This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry.

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Gregory Sidak

Governing the Postal Service

$25.00

Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.

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Howard Wiarda

Finding Our Way? Toward Maturity in U.S. Latin American Relations

$24.50

One of the most eminent authors on Latin America addresses questions crucial to US policy in the Caribbean area.

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David F. Bradford

Intergenerational Transfers Under Community Rating

$9.95

The authors examine the intergenerational transfers that can be expected from a shift to community rating under a mandatory health insurance purchase requirement.

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Herbert S. Frankel

Money & Liberty

$12.00

Money and Liberty, by S. Herbert Frankel, examines the psychological and political foundations of the modern money economy.

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Michael Novak

This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas

$12.95

The subject of this book is how to build institutions of liberty in this hemisphere of the Americas.

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John C. Fortier

Absentee and Early Voting

$20.00

Americans once gathered on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November to pick the nation's leaders. Election Day was a day of civic engagement when neighbors met at the polls and then cast their ballots. In the past twenty-five years, however, America has undergone a revolution in voting unlike anything it has experienced in the first 200 years of its history. We have created a system of many mini-election-days leading up to the main event. Today nearly a quarter of Americans vote before Election Day, either by absentee ballot or at early voting places. In 1980, only one in twenty voters voted before Election Day. What has happened? Has the convenience of absentee or early voting compromised the integrity of the process and weakened a unifying civic experience? In Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils, John Fortier documents the dramatic increase in absentee voting and, more recently, the meteoric rise in early voting. He examines the legal and historical reasons for changes in the voting system and the many differences across states. Fortier offers his thoughts about what the changes have meant for the country and where we should go from here.

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Yuval Levin

Religion and the American Revolution

$18.00

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the third volume of this series, scholars of American history and law consider the place of religion in the American Revolution. Many who participated in the American fight for independence viewed the cause as a fundamentally spiritual struggle, one with enormous implications for religion’s future in American civil society.

Exploring the multifaceted ways in which the founding generation understood religious freedom and worked to balance protections for diverse religious communities with the rights of individual conscience illuminates the commitment to liberty at the heart of the American project.

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Charles W. Calomiris

High Loan-to-Value Mortgage Lending: Problem or Cure?

$9.95

The authors weigh the functions of this industry, its practices and policies, and the changing nature of the consumer finance marketplace to determine whether limiting such lending would serve the public interest.

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Robert A. Goldwin

Spirit of the Constitution: Five Conversations

$9.95

In the discussions in this volume, distinguished jurists, journalists, and scholars strive to capture the unspoken principles of the Constitution, its elusive but compelling spirit.

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Peter J. Barry

The Effects of Credit Policies on U.S. Agriculture

$9.95

This book examines the nonbudget consequences of the entire set of programs and the extent to which general financial regulation affects the farm sector.

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Lynne L. Kiesling

Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story

$20.00

This volume explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States. The authors contend that restructuring in Texas has been successful because the industry is free from federal oversight.

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Bruce E. Fein

Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court 1979-80

$15.50

This is the 11th in the American Enterprise Institute's continuing series of annual reviews of the work of the United States Supreme Court.

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Nicholas Eberstadt

The End of North Korea

$14.95

The political partition of the Korean nation, to which the modern world has grown so accustomed, will not last indefinitely. The permanent two-state system in Korea is, asserts Nicholas Eberstadt, an unsustainable proposition. In this volume he demonstrates how the events unfolding in the Korean peninsula over the past decade have been signaling, with mounting pitch and power, that the division of Korea has already reached the limits of its viability. At some point in the years ahead, he avers, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which rules North Korea, will likely disappear from the political stage, and Korea will then reenter the international community as a united nation.

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Herbert Stein

The Fiscal Revolution in America

$16.50

This classic study chronicles the revolution in fiscal policy that occurred in the United States between the administrations of Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy.

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Peter Wallison

Nationalizing Mortgage Risk:

$9.95

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.

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Robert A. Goldwin

From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

$14.95

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that addition completed the Constitution by clarifying the status of the American people.

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David Farabee

Rethinking Rehabilitation:

$20.00

This monograph contends that fundamental principles of deterrence are far more humane in the long run than the progressive approaches that are becoming more popular today.

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Jagadeesh Gokhale

Fiscal and Generational Imbalances:

$15.00

Few realize how bad the federal government's finances are, because most evaluations are based on what happened in the past-not what is likely to happen in the future.

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Gordon L. Crovitz

The Fettered Presidency:

$16.00

This book addresses the proliferation of legal constraints on policymaking in the executive branch of the federal government and highlights the risks and dangers this poses for public policy.

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David Dranove

How Hospitals Survived: Competition and the American Hospital

$9.95

This study examines how hospitals have evolved since 1975.

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Mark Aguiar

The Increase in Leisure Inequality 1965-2005

$15.00

Using data spanning forty years and tens of thousands of survey respondents, Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst seek to answer several key questions about leisure inequality: How much has the leisure time of the average American increased or decreased over the last several decades?

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Nick Thimmesch

Aliteracy:

$14.50

Aliteracy: People Who Can Read but Won't, edited by Nick Thimmesch, addresses one of the critical issues of this decade. The decline of language skills in successive generations of high school students, the simplification of college textbooks, a diminished newspaper readership, the omnipresence of television-what effects will these have on our democratic way of life? Some see these trends as the loosened threads that will finally unravel the fabric of our society and move us closer to a world in which power will reside with a literate elite. Others point to contrary evidence-the near-eradication of illiteracy from the United States, a thriving magazine industry, the flood of new books, and an increased use of public libraries.

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Jerry Hausman

Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation:

$9.95

This book calculates the deadweight loss caused by the inefficient method of taxation that the Federal Communications Commission has employed and describes an alternative method.

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Jay Cost

Democracy or Republic?

$18.00

In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the right defends our founding document, the left argues that it’s an antiquated plan of government that goes against basic principles of democratic sovereignty.

What’s missing from this debate is an appreciation for the Constitution’s purpose. What kind of government were the founders trying to achieve?

In his new book, Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution, Jay Cost provides insight into that question. He argues that the founders’ vision was for a republic, not a democracy.

In both types of government, the citizens have the power to rule, but republics go further than this. A republic, as Abraham Lincoln put it, is a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” But in a simple democracy, the majority can rule for the good of themselves, rather than the whole community. How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet answered this question.

But America’s Founding Fathers did just that, and the Constitution reflects their ingenious solution—the idea of consensus. They created a government that would take action not because a narrow and fleeting majority demands it, but because a large, broad, and considered coalition of the people has found common cause with one another. This reflects the true opinion of the people, not just a faction that is temporarily in power. That is how government of the people becomes government for the people.

America, then, is not merely a democracy. It is something greater. It is a republic, built on the ideal of consensus. And while our country today has many problems, consensus remains the best way to solve them. Far from being a liability for the United States, the Constitution is still its greatest asset.

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William J. Baumol

Regulation Misled by Misread Theory:

$10.00

Regulation Misled by Misread Theory changes how we think about economics. Standard economics has long held that firms can price discriminate only when they have monopoly power.

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Peter J. Wallison

The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court

$42.00

In The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court: Perspectives on the Nondelegation Doctrine, leading scholars consider a revival of the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine—the separation-of-powers principle that bars Congress from transferring its legislative powers to the administrative agencies. Although the nondelegation doctrine has lain dormant since 1935, some Supreme Court justices have recently called for its return. As the Supreme Court takes up the doctrine in current cases, this volume makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the separation of powers and the Constitution.

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Peter C. Evans

Liberalizing Global Trade in Energy Services

$10.00

This study examines current efforts to deepen trade commitments regarding energy services.

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Walter Berns

Lincoln at Two Hundred

$17.00

We say that a man can be known by the company he keeps. So I say that a nation, a people, can be known and be judged by its heroes, by whom it honors above all others." Abraham Lincoln was the greatest of our presidents. He saved the Union, and because he saved the Union, he was able to free the slaves. But he did more than this. Without him, we might have had no reason to celebrate the bicentennial first of the Declaration of Independence and then of the Constitution. It is therefore altogether fitting that we mark the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Part of the Bradley Lecture Series. Lincoln at Two Hundred was presented on February 9, 2009, as part of the American Enterprise Institute's Bradley Lecture Series, which aims to enrich debate in the Washington policy community through exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of current controversies.

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Kip W. Viscusi

Product Risk Labeling:

$11.50

This volume examines state regulations for hazard warnings-for foods, drugs, and medical devices-and demonstrates why a federal warnings approach would be preferable.

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John A. Vernon

Regulation of Pharmaceuticals:

$12.00

The authors review the empirical evidence concerning the Food and Drug Administration's effect on the rate of innovation, the delays in introducing new drugs, and the profitability of pharmaceutical research.

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Dennis E. Logue

Managing Corporate Pension Plans: The Impacts of Inflation

$12.00

Do the effects of inflation threaten the nation's private pension plans? The answer given by the authors is no, although some pension plans have failed to compensate investors for the erosion of the purchasing power of their funds.

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Patricia M. Danzon

Price Comparisons for Pharmaceuticals:

$9.95

Drug coverage for seniors is better addressed by private-sector plans than by forcing manufacturers to offer Federal Supply Schedule discounts to the retail sector.

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John C. Weicher

Privatizing Subsidized Housing

$9.95

This volume explains why there is bipartisan interest in privatization of public housing and how it can be accomplished.

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Bruce E. Fein

Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court 1975-76

$15.50

This is the seventh volume in the American Enterprise Institute's series of annual reviews of major Supreme Court decisions.

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Patricia M. Danzon

Global Budgets Versus Competitive Cost-Control Strategies

$9.95

This book discusses how global budgets relate to competitive cost-control strategies.

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Alan J. Auerbach

Toward Fundamental Tax Reform

$20.00

This volume provides readers with concise but varying perspectives on the possibilities of tax reform and focuses attention on key questions in the scholarly debate.

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Robert A. Licht

South Africa's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy: Can the U.S. Constitution Help?

$20.00

This book is designed to help bring about the desired transition to liberal democracy in South Africa, particularly as the deliberations about a permanent constitution get under way.

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Dr. Arthur C. Brooks

Wealth and Justice

$9.95

Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as simply a 'lesser evil' whose faults are preferable to those of social democracy or communism. But what if the conventional understanding of capitalism as corrupt and unprincipled is wrong? What if the free market economy actually reinforces Christian values? In Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism, Arthur C. Brooks and Peter Wehner explore how America's system of democratic capitalism both depends upon and cultivates an intricate social web of families, churches, and communities. Far from oppressing and depriving individuals, the free market system uniquely enables Americans to exercise vocation and experience the dignity of self-sufficiency, all while contributing to the common good. The fruits of this system include the alleviation of poverty, better health, and greater access to education than at any other time in human history-but also a more significant prosperity: the flourishing of the human soul.

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Lillian Bevier

Is Free TV for Federal Candidates Constitutional?

$9.95

If some members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission have their way, they will mandate free television for federal candidates.

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Thomas W. Grennenmann

Reform Medicaid First:

$15.00

The authors offer principles for reform designed to encourage equity, efficiency, and accountability in all publicly funded health care programs.

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Dr. Michael Rubin

Seven Pillars

$39.00

For decades, US foreign policy in the Middle East has been on autopilot: Seek Arab-Israeli peace, fight terrorism, and urge regimes to respect human rights. Every US administration puts its own spin on these initiatives, but none has successfully resolved the region’s fundamental problems. In Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East? a bipartisan group of leading experts representing several academic and policy disciplines unravel the core causes of instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Why have some countries been immune to the Arab Spring? Which governments enjoy the most legitimacy and why? With more than half the region under 30 years of age, why does education and innovation lag? How do resource economies, crony capitalism, and inequality drive conflict? Are ethnic and sectarian fault lines the key factor, or are these more products of political and economic instability? And what are the wellsprings of extremism that threaten not only the United States but, more profoundly, the people of the region?

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Roger Sherman

Perspectives on Postal Service Issues: A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute

$12.00

This volume assesses postal reorganization since 1970. It also describes future technical opportunities and the expected economic, legal, and political responses.

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Edd S. Noell

Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing (Values and Capitalism)

$3.95

In Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing, Edd S. Noell, Stephen L. S. Smith, and Bruce G. Webb make a comprehensive case for economic growth, equipping readers with an understanding of not only its pragmatic benefits but also its moral dimensions.

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Bruce E. Fein

Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court 1976-77

$15.50

This is the eighth in the American Enterprise Institute's series of annual reviews of the work of the United States Supreme Court

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Sven W. Arndt

Competitiveness: The United States in World Trade

$11.50

Three factors have contributed to the deterioration of the US trade balance and the erosion of American competitiveness: macroeconomic policy, the fundamental realignment in global competitive conditions, and unfair foreign trade practices.

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Richard A. Epstein

Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice:

$20.00

For over one hundred years, the antitrust consent decree has been a major weapon in the federal enforcement of antitrust laws. In Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice, Richard A. Epstein undertakes the first systematic study of their use and effectiveness from both a historical and analytical perspective. Epstein observes how differences in antitrust philosophy can shape the kinds of comprehensive settlements that the government will seek and the courts will grant. Epstein takes issue with aggressive antitrust enforcement strategies that seek to use government power to fundamentally alter industry structures or the business practices of regulated firms, in some instances leading to their breakup. To explain the perils of that approach, Epstein carefully examines the history of consent decree litigation, culminating in detailed studies of the AT&T breakup and the government antitrust actions against Microsoft. Applying modern theories of antitrust analysis, Epstein's central thesis is that bold antitrust remedies that are not tightly tied to a defensible theory of wrongful conduct often prove counterproductive. Such measures typically force firms to adopt business practices and structural reorganizations that substantially impede their ability to compete effectively in the marketplace. The disparate fates of AT&T and Microsoft are the result of a major and fruitful shift in thinking about the use and limits on the antitrust laws in a wide variety of industrial contexts. Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice will be of interest to any reader who is concerned with the larger implications of the government regulation of law and business. Epstein brings nearly forty years of personal knowledge and experience to this matter. Written in a clear and nontechnical style, this book should prove an invaluable resource to any student of regulation and economic policy, as well as lawyers and policymakers concerned with antitrust litigation.

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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State... and Other Surprises

$12.95

This volume explores regional conflicts, summitry and arms control, and relations between the United States and its allies.

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Marvin H. Kosters

Financing College Tuition:

$14.95

A college education has been the key to higher real wages and living standards. But as college enrollment has increased, so has the difficulty in paying for higher education.

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James Q. Wilson

On Character

$12.95

James Q. Wilson is the former president of the American Political Science Association and adviser to four presidents on issues related to crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises of American cutlure. In this book, he has produced a provocative series ...

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Deepak Lal

In Defense of Empires

$10.00

This monograph suggests that the world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity.

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Robert Conquest

The Man-made Famine in Ukraine

$12.00

Between August 1933 and spring 1934, more than seven million peasants were starved to death in Ukraine by deliberate Soviet national policy.

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Walter Berns

Democracy and the Constitution: Essays by Walter Berns

$20.00

For more than half a century, Walter Berns has been a leading authority on the Constitution. This volume collects many of his most important essays on timeless constitutional and political questions.

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Howard R. Penniman

French National Assembly

$12.00

This book analyzes the elections that were widely expected to bring the left to power in France. Instead they gave the center-right coalition a slim lead in the popular vote and a decisive majority in the National Assembly.

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Peter J. Wallison

Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

$47.00

The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination. It examines the two federal institutions tasked with enforcing Title VII and the 1964 Civil Rights Act: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). It also provides a quantitative analysis of racial and gender wage gaps and seeks to determine what role, if any, the EEOC and the OFCCP had in narrowing these gaps over time and analyzes the data to determine the extent of employment discrimination today.

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Michael Novak

Future of the Corporation

$9.95

This book reviews the long history of the corporation and examines the central role of business and economic growth in the strengthening of civil society and democracy.

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Nicholas Eberstadt

The Tyranny of Numbers:

$16.95

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

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Franklin R. Edwards

The New Finance:

$14.95

Revolutionary changes, including the shrinking of traditional banking and the expansion of trading in foreign securities, have recently rocked financial markets.

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David Dranove

Clinton's Specialist Quota:

$9.95

This book discusses President Bill Clinton's approach to health care industry reform.

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Karlyn H. Bowman

The 1993-1994 Debate on Health Care Reform:

$9.95

This book brings together public opinion results on the 1994-1994 health care reform debates

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John C. Weicher

Housing: Federal Policies

$12.00

This book focuses on the two main purposes of government housing policy: enabling the poor to live in decent housing and increasing the opportunities for homeownership for lower- and middle-income groups.

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Dr. Philip I. Levy

Swap

$9.95

A concise introduction to the principles of world economics, Swap is an easy-to-understand resource for a general audience. This brief, practical volume covers the principles of specialization, comparative advantage, deficits, supply chains, labor and environmental standards, trade with the developing world, and more.