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The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
מאת Richard A. Epstein
WHAT ARE THE TRUE CONSEQUENCES OF THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT?With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impa...
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Free Markets under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare (Hoover Classics)
מאת Richard A. Epstein
One of the greatest challenges faced by liberal democracies is how to best regulate the interface between market choice and government behavior. In Free Markets under Siege, Richard Epstein draws on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics to examine this critical issue and in t...
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"The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars"
Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues--along with "the culture wars"--in this latest ... |
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Few doubt the seriousness of the recent crisis afflicting the financial systems of the United States and the world, and still fewer claim that nothing needs to be fixed. But many of the reforms proposed by both the Bush and Obama administrations have triggered risks—risks that have direct, short-t...
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In thinking about American power, says Kori Schake, the first concern is its relevance: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the United States is an empire or a colossus or merely the strongest power in the order? If we are profligate with our power, would it make any difference? In Managing ...
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Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)
מאת James B. Stockdale "On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplanet—the cockpit walls not even three feet apart—which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out. After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last sta... |
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Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity (Hoover Classics)
מאת Terry L. Anderson To those who penned the Magna Carta in England, as well as to the American founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, protection of private property was of utmost importance. Today, however, property rights are threatened by a variety of state, national, an... |
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Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
מאת John B. Taylor
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF WHAT WENT WRONGThroughout history, financial crises have always been caused by excesses--frequently monetary excesses--which lead to a boom and an inevitable bust. In our current crisis it was a housing boom and bust that in turn led to financial turmoil in the United...
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The Federal Reserve is the single most important economic policy institution in the United States. Its recent unprecedented actions and interventions have raised serious concerns in many quarters about inflation, as well as the independence and effectiveness of the Fed. In The Road Ahead for t... |
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The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In th...
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"I value this book because of its essence: the careful development of a framework for thinking about nuclear weapons in times punctuated by terrorist threats. All the elements are here: a relevant history, including an illuminating chart on page 6 on the time pattern of state acquisition of nucl... |
