Hoover Press imprint: 226 books
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding that market. Morality and Work confronts issues with a bold, candid approach that is sometimes unsettling but always thought-provoking.
Charter Schools against the Odds
An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways. They...
From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 1
A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Protest and Hope, 1882-1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This remarkable collection of material is as relevant today as when it was first published; graphically demonstrating the native African's struggle for peace, freedom, and equality in his native land during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Choice with Equity
An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools—and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.
China and Japan
New Economic Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
On the basis of a judicious use of indigenous materials and field research conducted in China and Japan, the author examines Sino-Japanese economic diplomacy. This original in-depth analysis concentrates on a few salient cases of Sino-Japanese economic interaction: a multibillion-dollar steel complex...
You Have to Admit It's Getting Better
From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, economic growth is not the antithesis of environmental quality; rather, the two go hand in hand if the incentives are right. The author shows how, by developing and protecting the institutions of freedom rather than regulating human use of natural resources through political processes, we can have our environmental cake and eat it too.
Looking Backward and Forward
Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe including...
by Camille Pecastaing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Camille Pecastaing looks at the twenty-first-century challenges facing the region around the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean-from civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism and the real risk of environmental and economic failure on both sides of the...
by Adam Garfinkle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on...
by Nguyen Van Canh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Based on his own experiences, extensive use of primary and secondary sources, and interviews with Vietnamese refugees who lived under the new order, Nguyen Van Canh analyzes the contemporary political and administrative structure of Vietnam and its leaders, culture, education, economy, and foreign policy.
Entitlement Spending
Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
David Koitz clarifies misconceptions and presents the facts on the impending fiscal crisis driven by spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Although these programs are idolized as pillars of the nation's safety net, he shows how they are in fact the largest drivers of our looming fiscal...
Population Puzzle
Boom or Bust?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing from government reports, think tank studies, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and books, this insightful overview offers a range of contrasting viewpoints and policy perspectives on the major issues concerning world population growth, with particular emphasis on the impact of population trends on the United States.
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
by Richard F. Staar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Based largely on primary sources in the Russian language, this succinct volume cover the following aspects of Soviet foreign policy: world outlook, personalities and structures of the decisionmaking process, implementation of objectives, and a discussion of practices toward geographic regions as well as specific countries.