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The AEI Press publishes books that deepen our understanding of the great domestic and foreign policy issues facing America. Our books illuminate matters now being debated in Congress, in the media, and perhaps in your own home and business.

The AEI Press is the publishing arm of AEI. In our books--as in our periodicals, conferences, and other activities--AEI takes the best in current academic research and scholarship and makes it relevant to the practical political debates of the day. We hope you will find our publications lively, stimulating, intelligent, and thorough.

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Featured Book

Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge Lessons from the FEHBP

By Walton Francis
AEI Press
(October 2009)

Until a recent government decision to place it in the same tax-preferred status as most private-insurer health insurance, the FEHBP consistently outperformed Medicare in cost control; it still outperforms Medicare in service, benefit generosity, fraud prevention, and protection from catastrophically high health care expenses. In this timely volume, Walton Francis analyzes the successes and failures of both programs and proposes reforms that will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare.

"The FEHBP is certainly not a perfect program. Its design and operation are flawed in major ways described in this analysis. But in making policy and political decisions, and in real-world markets, the available options never include a perfect one. And even the negative aspects of the FEHBP offer lessons."

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Voting Rights--And Wrongs

By Abigail Thernstrom
AEI Press
(June 2009)

Reform Medicaid First

By Mark V. Pauly , Thomas W. Grannemann
AEI Press
(June 2009)

Pharmaceutical Price Regulation

By John A. Vernon, Joseph H. Golec
AEI Press
(January 2009)

Better Parties, Better Government

By Peter J. Wallison , Joel M. Gora
AEI Press
(April 2009)

From AEI Press

Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story (forthcoming)

Edited By L. Lynne Kiesling and Andrew N. Kleit
AEI Press
(November 2009)

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 Science on Women and Science

Edited By Christina Hoff Sommers
AEI Press
(November 2009)

This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.

Deregulation

Where Do We Go from Here?

By Paul L. Joskow
AEI Press
(October 2009)

In this timely monograph, Paul L. Joskow argues that the crisis in the financial market should not become an excuse for reversing beneficial regulatory reforms in other sectors.

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Also by AEI Scholars

From Poverty to Prosperity

Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity

By Nick Schulz , Arnold Kling
Encounter Books
(November 2009)

Drawing on research from the world's most important economists, this volume tells a big picture story about the huge differences in the standard of living across time and across borders.

The Aid Trap

Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

By R. Glenn Hubbard , William Duggan
Columbia Business School Publishing
(September 2009)

Hubbard and Duggan make the case that current foreign aid and Third World projects--particularly in Africa--aren't working and that the developed world must rethink how it allots aid money.

The Age of Reagan

The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989

By Steven F. Hayward
Crown Forum
(August 2009)

The long-awaited second volume in a classic of presidential history.

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AEI Classic Series

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Toward a More Perfect Union
Edited by Joseph Bessette
AEI Press
(February 1995)

The great themes of Storing's scholarship were the great themes of the political discourse of the nation's founding. This book, part of the AEI Classic series, is available for download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. [Read More]

Book Events

Why Aren't There More Female Scientists?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Women have achieved or exceeded parity with men in most academic fields yet continue to be outnumbered in the physical sciences, engineering, and math. Is the dearth of women scientists the result of gender bias? Or is it the result of different interests, life circumstances, and cognitive strengths? Christina Hoff Sommers and her coauthors--both scientists and philosophers--weigh in on this critical discussion in the newly published volume The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009).

At this AEI event, Sommers and coauthor Rosalind Chait Barnett of the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University will discuss their findings, the larger debate about women and science, and the socioeconomic repercussions of government interventions in the academic sciences such as the planned deployment of Title IX equity law. This event will be moderated by Hanna Rosin, contributing editor of The Atlantic and a founding editor of DoubleX.