AEI.Org: Books

From Poverty to Prosperity

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story (forthcoming)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This careful analysis of Medicare and the FEHBP is an invaluable guide for policymakers considering major health reforms while juggling the twin problems of runaway health care spending and looming Medicare insolvency.

The Aid Trap

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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 Politically Correct University

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.

Citizenship in America and Europe

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Scholars from both sides of the Atlantic consider how concepts of citizenship affect debates over immigration and assimilation, tolerance and minority rights, and national cohesion and civic culture.

The Age of Reagan

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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

Preserving Our Institutions

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This report delves into the issues surrounding succession to the presidency and provides seven specific recommendations for how the flaws in the current succession process may be fixed.