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Rethinking Federal Housing Policy
How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable
By Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko
Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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]

Prices, Poverty, and Inequality
Why Americans Are Better Off Than You Think
By Christian Broda, David E. Weinstein
Posted: Friday, November 7, 2008

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]

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis
By Newt Gingrich, Vince Haley
Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008

Gingrich argues that the pinch Americans are feeling at the pump is not a blip in the economy but a looming crisis. [Read More]

Competitive Equity
A Better Way to Organize Mutual Funds
By Peter J. Wallison, Robert E. Litan
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust." [Read More]

Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice
Why Less Is More
By Richard A. Epstein
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007

This book is the first systematic study of the use and effectiveness of the antitrust consent decree in the federal enforcement of antitrust laws. [Read More]

The Challenges of China's Growth
By Dwight H. Perkins
Posted: Monday, January 22, 2007

This book examines questions and uncertainties about China's rapid growth and what their resolution will mean for the United States. [Read More]

The Wal-Mart Revolution
How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
By Richard Vedder, Wendell Cox
Posted: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The authors analyze 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]

The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle
What We've Learned; How to Fix It
By Henry N. Butler, Larry E. Ribstein
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2006

The authors argue that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a colossal failure, yet seek to salvage some lessons from the ruins of SOX. [Read More]

Regulation Misled by Misread Theory
Perfect Competition and Competition-Imposed Price Discrimination
By William J. Baumol
Posted: Tuesday, March 14, 2006

This monograph shows that price discrimination not only exists in competitive markets but sometimes is a crucial feature of them. [Read More]

In Our Hands
A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
By Charles Murray
Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2006

This book reveals the ineffectiveness of government redistribution plans and offers a radical new approach to social policy. [Read More]

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