The AEI Press is an important conduit for disseminating the ideas of the Institute's scholars and other leading thinkers. Some highlights from the Press's recent books appear below.
In Russia's Revolution: Essays 1989-2006, Leon Aron traces seventeen years of Russian political, economic, social, and cultural development from glasnost and perestroika to the Putin restoration.
Gary J. Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly coedited Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources, which examines deficiencies in each military branch and proposes ways to develop the military the United States needs.
In Federal Preemption: States' Rights, National Interests, editors Richard A. Epstein and Michael S. Greve compile essays on federalism's constitutional basis and its practical applications today.
Claude Barfield and John E. Calfee authored Biotechnology and the Patent System: Balancing Innovation and Property Rights, a timely discussion of biotechnology patent reform.
In Strategic Options for Bush Administration Climate Policy, Lee Lane explores options that policymakers might consider--such as increased development of clean-energy technologies and the adoption of a carbon tax--as well as the costs and benefits of current policies.
Coauthored by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox, The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy was published late in 2006. The Financial Times said "the strength of the book lies in its summaries of economic evidence."
The Challenges of China's Growth, by Dwight H. Perkins, asks whether China can make the institutional changes and reforms that will be required to reach significantly higher levels of productivity and income and whether continuing growth will unleash unpredictable social or political forces.
Mr. Epstein contributed a new volume to AEI's work on antitrust policy. In Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less Is More, he argues that the aggressive use of consent decrees in antitrust cases unduly impedes firms' ability to compete.
Europe and Islam, Bernard Lewis's 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture, provides historical context for the clash of religious ideologies between Islam and Christianity. Mr. Lewis discusses two eras of European-Islamic collision and explores the challenges Europe faces at the beginning of a third era.
In Global Population Aging and Its Economic Consequences, demographer Ronald D. Lee explains how the risks of older, more slowly growing populations can be contained with foresight and prudent public policy.
Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth, M.D., authored Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health, in which they argue that healthy aging is a silver lining in Europe's cloudy demographic future.
Footing the Tuition Bill: The New Student Loan Sector, edited by Frederick M. Hess, examines the rise of private lending and considers how revamping the industry can ensure that all Americans have access to college. Also in 2007, the AEI Press published No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB, edited by Mr. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr.
The twelfth edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, by Steven F. Hayward and Amy L. Kaleita (copublished by AEI and the Pacific Research Institute), highlights positive developments in environmental research.
Peter J. Wallison and Robert E. Litan argue in Competitive Equity: A Better Way to Organize Mutual Funds that current policies regulating mutual funds hurt investors by discouraging price competition, keeping costs higher than they would otherwise be.
The first book in AEI's Studies on Medicare Reform series appeared in 2007. In The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving argue that only fundamental reform of Medicare will stave off the financial burden for future generations.
Edward Blum's monograph The Unintended Consequences of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act looks at the practical challenges local governments have faced in complying with the Voting Rights Act.
The AEI Press has begun reissuing a number of the Institute's early publications. The first of the "AEI Classics" is a pamphlet written by the late Edward C. Banfield in 1963 on U.S. foreign aid programs.
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