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Public Perceptions, Economic Realities, and Empirical Evidence
This monograph demonstrates empirically how the free-market system of drug pricing is vital to the development of new breakthrough drugs.   [Read more]
 
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How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable
A radical rethinking of housing policy is needed to allow housing markets to operate freely--and to make housing affordable and plentiful for the middle class and the poor.   [Read more]
 
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Why Americans Are Better Off Than You Think
Adjusting poverty measures to account for the benefits of product improvements reveals that Americans in every income group are better off than they were twenty-five years ago.   [Read more]
 
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Anupam B. Jena and Tomas J. Philipson argue that further use of cost-effectiveness analysis to curb health care spending may do more harm than good.   [Read more]
 
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Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered
Peacock contends that theVRA, as it is currently implemented, undermines the Founders' vision of government by emphasizing racial and ethnic group rights over individual rights.   [Read more]
 
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A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks
Schwartz and Hayward offer an alternative analysis of air pollution levels, trends, and prospects in metropolitan areas across the United States.   [Read more]
 
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Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
Entine traces the genetic history of people of the Jewish faith.   [Read more]
 
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A New History of the Great Depression
This book offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression.   [Read more]
 
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States' Powers, National Interests
This book considers federalism's constitutional basis and its practical applications.   [Read more]
 
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How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
The authorsanalyze the best available economic data and conclude that American consumers--particularly the less affluent--have benefited tremendously from Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."   [Read more]
 
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In Prices, Poverty, and Inequality: Why Americans Are Better Off Than You Think, Christian Broda (University of Chicago) and David E. Weinstein (Columbia University) argue that adjusting poverty measures reveals that Americans in every income group are substantially better off economically than they were a quarter century ago. [More on this book]