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Impact of Labor Taxes on Labor Supply
As the Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire in 2010, ambitious health care legislation is moving through Congress, and entitlement programs are growing at unsustainable rates, U.S. …
Crop Chemophobia
The Green Revolution of 1960s introduced herbicides, pesticides, and advanced agricultural technologies to third world countries-rescuing hundreds of millions of people from …
Wealth and Justice
Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the …
Agricultural Policy in Disarray
From any coherent policy perspective, agricultural policy in the United States is in total disarray. Not surprisingly, persistent and pervasive rent-seeking by well-funded lobbies …
Awkward Embrace
In Awkward Embrace, Phillip Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America's economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and …
Progressive Consumption Taxation
Alone among developed countries, the United States has no broad-based national consumption tax. Yet, economic analysis suggests that consumption taxation is superior to income …
Women's Figures
The myth that women make 78 cents on a man's dollar is a standard refrain in popular media and serves as a rationale for affirmative action for women. Unstated is that for women …
Rethinking Competitiveness
Few politicians can make a speech concerning economic policy without using the term "e;competitiveness."e; Yet, despite its frequent and casual use, there is little if any …
Bad History, Worse Policy
This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking …
Character & Cops, 6th Edition
Since the first edition was published in 1989, Character and Cops has been considered the bible of police ethics training. The book is a comprehensive guide to the ethical …
Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States
Traditional measures of economic disparities among Americans of different race, gender, geographic location, and education level consider only material well-being, so that making …
Agricultural Policy in Disarray
From any coherent policy perspective, agricultural policy in the United States is in total disarray. Not surprisingly, persistent and pervasive rent-seeking by well-funded lobbies …