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This book focuses on the two main purposes of government housing policy: enabling the poor to live in decent housing and increasing the opportunities for homeownership for lower- and middle-income groups.

This volume presents the edited proceedings of a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute.

This is the seventh volume of AEI's annual series on Contemporary Economic Problems.

"Nine issues ... to address emerged from a series of conferences held during AEI's annual public policy week in mid-December 1979."

In this volume, leading scholars tackle the debate over intellectual property rights in high-technology industries and express their views on how to improve the current system.

This volume explores the claims of proponents of free-trade areas and analyzes two principal initiatives associated with recent US trade policy: NAFTA and APEC. The authors conclude that the US should reject preferential trading in favour of the more beneficial goal of non-preferential trading.

Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and held in Washington, May 1980.

This book analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the referendum and the initiative and how they fit the requirements of democratic ideals.

This book examines the facts and figures that have led to government measures that have been unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries.

The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with the Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.

What is the relationship between democratic government and a capitalist economic system?

Are women victims of a widespread bias in science and engineering, as a 2007 report of the National Academy of Sciences concluded? Or are there other, more plausible explanations for the paucity of women in various quantitative fields? This book presents a collection of essays on both sides of the issue.

The authors weigh the functions of this industry, its practices and policies, and the changing nature of the consumer finance marketplace to determine whether limiting such lending would serve the public interest.

This monograph assesses how the adverse health implications associated with regulatory costs can affect mortality risk by considering a broad group of federal regulations.

This book analyzes the elections that were widely expected to bring the left to power in France. Instead they gave the center-right coalition a slim lead in the popular vote and a decisive majority in the National Assembly.

This study examines how hospitals have evolved since 1975.

While many Americans live in conditions of prosperity, a second nationwhere illegitimacy, child and drug abuse, violence, criminality, and other social ills proliferateis growing within.

The author analyzes the change in male earnings inequality since the mid-1970s to see how much is attributable to changes in labor market opportunities

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This pioneering study uses the latest available data to examine the internationalization of regulation and regulatory reform.

This book argues that current policy, even if invigorated by more aggressive military efforts, will not bring the United States victory over Saddam and his regime.

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade.

This book provides a point of view on the debate about health care delivery in the U.S., particularly in light of the debate surrounding the Patient Protection Act.

This book is a collection of essays on proposals to provide tax incentives to stimulate the growth of high-technology firms.