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  • On Corporate Governance
    On Corporate Governance

    On corporate governance

    Two achievements-up the poor and animating civil society-are powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.

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  • The Underclass Revisited
    The Underclass Revisited

    The underclass revisited

    This book examines statistics on illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997.

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  • Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy
    Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy

    Using federalism to improve environmental policy

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

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  • Agricultural Policy in Disarray
    Agricultural Policy in Disarray

    Agricultural policy in disarray

    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 ag...

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  • Governing the Postal Service
    Governing the Postal Service

    Governing the postal service

    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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  • American Trade Policy:
    American Trade Policy:

    American trade policy:

    The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade.

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  • Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
    Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

    Dissent from the majority report of the financial crisis inquiry commission

    In this formal dissent to the FCIC’s official report on the causes of the financial crisis, Peter J. Wallison, codirector of financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the FCIC’s report fails to address the cause of the deterioration in mortgage underwriting standa...

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  • Thwarting Consumer Choice
    Thwarting Consumer Choice

    Thwarting consumer choice

    Are consumers entitled to full disclosure about what is in their food? Many countries, including key U.S. trading partners in Europe and Asia, have adopted mandatory labeling laws for genetically modified crops such as corn and soybeans. Policymakers in the United States are under pressure from a...

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  • Clinton's Specialist Quota:
    Clinton's Specialist Quota:

    Clinton's specialist quota:

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

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  • Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States
    Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States

    Health and wealth disparities in the united states

    As economists and policymakers strive to understand the causes of the global financial crisis, pinpointing the relationship between government size and economic growth is crucial. In this incisive economic study, Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson find that in wealthy countries, where government ...

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  • The Genius of American Corporate Law
    The Genius of American Corporate Law

    The genius of american corporate law

    The author examines the structure of the corporate charter market, the impact of takeover regulation and federal securities law, and the spreading of criminalization of corporate duties.

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  • Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition
    Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition

    Offshore financial centers and regulatory competition

    Offshore financial centers (OFCs) have a troubled reputation for enabling tax evasion, money laundering, autocratic looting, and even the financing of terrorism-but they play an essential role in the world economy. Fears of criminal activity have prompted many onshore governments to restrict offs...

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  • The New Finance
    The New Finance

    The new finance

    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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  • Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing
    Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing

    Economic freedom and human flourishing

    Is economic liberty necessary for individuals to lead truly flourishing lives? Whether your immediate answer is yes or no, this question is deceptively simple. What do we mean by liberty? What constitutes the flourishing life? How are these related? How is economic liberty related to other goods ...

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  • After the People Vote, Fourth Edition

    After the people vote, fourth edition

    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 sket...

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  • Reform of Social Security and Federal Pension Cost-of-living Adjustments: 1985, 99th Congress, 1st Session
    Reform of Social Security and Federal Pension Cost-of-living Adjustments: 1985, 99th Congress, 1st Session

    Reform of social security and federal pension cost-of-living adjustments: 1985, 99th congress, 1st session

    This legislative analysis examines the arguments for and against reducing the cost-of-living adjustments for social security and other federal retirement and disability programs.

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  • Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction
    Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction

    Costs and benefits of greenhouse gas reduction

    Little will be done in the near future to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The divisions between European and American policymakers and between developed and developing countries will take many years to bridge.

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  • Amtrak
    Amtrak

    Amtrak

    Amtrak: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, by George W. Hilton, deals with the system Congress inaugurated in 1971 to prevent the demise of the intercity passenger train.

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  • Toward a Theology of the Corporation
    Toward a Theology of the Corporation

    Toward a theology of the corporation

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

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  • A Safety Net That Works
    A Safety Net That Works

    A safety net that works

    This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things w...

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  • The Effects of Credit Policies on U.S. Agriculture
    The Effects of Credit Policies on U.S. Agriculture

    The effects of credit policies on u.s. agriculture

    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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  • Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
    Toward Fundamental Tax Reform

    Toward fundamental tax reform

    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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  • National health insurance in Ontario: The effects of a policy of cost control
    National health insurance in Ontario: The effects of a policy of cost control

    National health insurance in ontario: the effects of a policy of cost control

    National Health Insurance in Ontario: The Effects of a Policy of Cost Control by William S. Comanor examines the implications for the United States of Ontario's experience with national health insurance.

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  • Beside the Golden Door
    Beside the Golden Door

    Beside the golden door

    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'_the last line of Emma Lazarus's famous poem invites immigrants to enter a land of economic opportunity. Many have accepted that invitation; today, foreign-born workers make up nearly 16 percent of the U.S. workforce and account for almost half of workforce ...

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  • Family violence: Research and public policy issues
    Family violence: Research and public policy issues

    Family violence: research and public policy issues

    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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  • Controversy About American Hospitals
    Controversy About American Hospitals

    Controversy about american hospitals

    This study is concerned primarily with comparing the behavior of for-profit, public, and voluntary hospitals.

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  • Rethinking Competitiveness
    Rethinking Competitiveness

    Rethinking competitiveness

    Few politicians can make a speech concerning economic policy without using the term “competitiveness.” Yet, despite its frequent and casual use, there is little if any agreement on its meaning. Scholars have been slow to embrace the term, holding a healthy skepticism toward such political utteran...

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  • The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court
    The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court

    The administrative state before the supreme court

    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 a...

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  • US Health Policy and Market Reforms
    US Health Policy and Market Reforms

    Us health policy and market reforms

    Health care has been a prominent topic in the US national political conversation for decades, with no end in sight. The status quo, even before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed flaws in the nation’s public health system, has been too dysfunctional for the issue to fall far down the list of voter pri...

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  • Mere Environmentalism
    Mere Environmentalism

    Mere environmentalism

    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 co...

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  • Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men
    Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men

    Expanding work programs for poor men

    Welfare reform, which required that poor mothers work in return for assistance, was a watershed in the struggle against poverty for American families. As work levels rose dramatically among low-income women, the welfare rolls were cut in half and many families rose out of poverty. But men's emplo...

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  • Price Comparisons for Pharmaceuticals:
    Price Comparisons for Pharmaceuticals:

    Price comparisons for pharmaceuticals:

    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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  • Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court 1974-75
    Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court 1974-75

    Significant decisions of the supreme court 1974-75

    This book is the sixth in the American Enterprise Institute's series of annual reviews of the work of the US Supreme Court.

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  • The Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures: 2011–24
    The Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures: 2011–24

    The walter berns constitution day lectures: 2011–24

    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 constitutio...

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  • On Character 
    On Character 

    On character 

    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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  • An Awkward Embrace
    An Awkward Embrace

    An awkward embrace

    In Awkward Embrace, Phillip Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America’s economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and details what needs to happen for this trend to continue. Daniel Blumenthal, a former official specializing in Asia a...

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  • The US Labor Market
    The US Labor Market

    The us labor market

    Public policy is rightly concerned with fostering a vibrant labor market in which individuals can earn their own success, realize their potential, and enjoy the dignity that hard work provides. But public policy faces serious challenges in today’s labor market: low workforce participation and hig...

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  • Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World
    Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World

    Democratic realism: an american foreign policy for a unipolar world

    In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and democratic ...

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  • After the People Vote, third edition (2004)
    After the People Vote, third edition (2004)

    After the people vote, third edition (2004)

    The extraordinary presidential election contest in 2000 raised new issues about the electoral process. In the third edition of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, leading constitutional, political, and legal scholars use examples from that controversial election and other dis...

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  • Achieving Financial Solvency in Social Security
    Achieving Financial Solvency in Social Security

    Achieving financial solvency in social security

    The Social Security Amendments of 1972 capped nearly four decades of expansion and benefit increases by boosting benefits 20 percent and indexing benefits to inflation beginning in 1975.

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  • The Fettered Presidency:
    The Fettered Presidency:

    The fettered presidency:

    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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  • Rate Regulation of Worker's Compensation Insurance:
    Rate Regulation of Worker's Compensation Insurance:

    Rate regulation of worker's compensation insurance:

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

    From parchment to power: how james madison used the bill of rights to save the constutition

    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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  • Benefit-Cost Analyses of Social Regulation
    Benefit-Cost Analyses of Social Regulation

    Benefit-cost analyses of social regulation

    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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  • Money & Liberty
    Money & Liberty

    Money & liberty

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

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  • The Corporation and the Constitution
    The Corporation and the Constitution

    The corporation and the constitution

    The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with the Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.

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  • Whom the Gods Would Destroy or How Not to Deregulate
    Whom the Gods Would Destroy or How Not to Deregulate

    Whom the gods would destroy or how not to deregulate

    This book assesses the current status of the public utility deregulation movement in the United States.

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  • The Fiscal Revolution in America
    The Fiscal Revolution in America

    The fiscal revolution in america

    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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  • Trade and Wages
    Trade and Wages

    Trade and wages

    Essays from a one-day workshop on the influence of trade on jobs and wages, American Enterprise Institute, September 10, 1993.

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