Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
Race & Economics
How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths...
by Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Currency Unions reviews the traditional case for flexible exchange rates and "countercyclical"—that is, expansionary during recessions and contractionary in booms—monetary policy, and shows how flexible exchange rate regimes can better insulate the economy from such real disturbances...
National Health Policy
What Role for Government?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Many papers included in this volume express skepticism regarding both the diagnosis of the American health system as fundamentally ailing and the prescription of greater public intervention in the financing and delivery of medical services as the remedy and sure path to recovery.
Getting Off Track
How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this concise volume, leading economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what dramatically worsened it more than a year after it began. The evidence he presents strongly suggests that specific government actions...
Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism
Controversial Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and our loss...
by David Koitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book looks at both the Republican and the Democratic Party plans for Social Security, showing how each confronts significant ideological and political hurdles. David Koitz cuts through the partisan rhetoric that has made social Security one of the most debated programs on the U.S. political scene...
The Wave
Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht argues that the Middle East may actually be at the beginning of a momentous democratic wave whose convulsions could become the region's defining theme during Obama's presidency. He describes the powerful Middle Eastern democratic movements coming from both the...
The Business of Commerce
Examining an Honorable Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chesher and Machan explore the cultural, philosophical, and theological sources of the bad reputation suffered by business in Western culture. They sample prominent opinion, from Plato to Galbraith, in an examination of the fundamental dichotomies of a society that seeks prosperity, yet disdains the processes by which prosperity is achieved.
Free Markets under Siege
Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics, Richard Epstein examines how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention—and find a middle way between socialism and libertarianism. He argues the merits of competition over protectionism and...
Bankruptcy Not Bailout
A Special Chapter 14
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book introduces and analyzes a new and more predictable bankruptcy process designed specifically for large financial institutions—Chapter 14—to achieve greater financial stability and reduce the likelihood of bailouts. The contributors identify and compare the major differences in the Dodd-Frank...
Fixing Russia's Banks
A Proposal for Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Fixing Russia's Banks documents how Russia's financial system is built on what Michael S. Bernstam and Alvin Rabushka call ersatz banks. These inferior imitation banks have served largely as tools of the government to redistribute public funds to favored firms. The highly vaunted achievements of privatization,...
Liberty and Research and Development
Science Funding in a Free Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The contributors to this volume explore the implications of government funding of scientific research and offer alternatives to the heavy reliance on government support that research and development (R&D) currently enjoys. Each author squarely confronts the problems arising from the idea that government funding of R&D is and ought to be the norm.
Beyond the Color Line
New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America
Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.