Books published by AEI Press

Medicare is quickly approaching insolvency, in part because the program pays too much for the services it provides. In Bring Market Prices to Medicare, Robert F. Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan E. Dowd propose a groundbreaking solution: Use market-based arrangements to set prices for Medicare plans.

U.S. Markets for Vaccines: Characteristics, Case Studies, and Controversies examines several case studiesincluding vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, seasonal influenza, chicken pox, and shinglesthat demonstrate the diverse dynamics of vaccine markets.

In Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline a plan for making it more affordable.

This monograph demonstrates empirically how the free-market system of drug pricing is vital to the development of new breakthrough drugs.

Peacock contends that the VRA, as it is currently implemented, undermines the Founders' vision of government by emphasizing racial and ethnic group rights over individual rights.

If the United States is to maintain its status as the sole superpower, Donnelly and Kagan argue, American land power must be restructured to confront unprecedented challenges.

Religion and the American Future is a lively, learned dialogue on the role of religion in American society. The contributors raise their voices in opposition to the tide of cynicism and constraint that often overwhelms religion in public life and argue that tolerance, respect, and free expression must define the future of religion in America.

This volume provides readers with concise but varying perspectives on the possibilities of tax reform and focuses attention on key questions in the scholarly debate.

For more than half a century, Walter Berns has been a leading authority on the Constitution. This volume collects many of his most important essays on timeless constitutional and political questions.

Experts make a compelling and persuasive case for markets in human organs.

In this work, the authors examine the problems that are likely to delay China's accession to the World Trade Organization. They propose guidelines for how the WTO should address the accession of not only China, but of other non-market economies as well.

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that addition completed the Constitution by clarifying the status of the American people.

This book sheds light on environmental and other issues, including global warming, that will deeply affect the future of the automobile and of all American industry.

This book documents the unions' descent into radicalism and concludes that this movement no longer serves the public or the national interest.

This study offers the views of 60 public officials, academics, business leaders and journalists from the USA and Europe on the progress, pace and consequences of European integration. The question-and-answer format allows thinkers and practitioners from different backgrounds to share their ideas.

This study examines the effect of existing regulations on US pharmaceutical firms. The author explores the indirect spillovers from the regulatory use of international price comparisons and the threat from parallel trade, concluding that competition promises more efficiency and incentives.

This book is a study of the ways in which U.S. agriculture policies contribute to or help to ameliorate the adverse effects of farming on the environment.

This book examines the nonbudget consequences of the entire set of programs and the extent to which general financial regulation affects the farm sector.

This volume brings together essays that critique recent U.S. agriculture policy and propose alternatives to the current regulatory regime.

This book examines growth, poverty, employment, taxes, and deficits; and discusses the role of presidents, their advisers, and economists in the formation of economic policy.

This work should be useful reading for those concerned with the world of transnational investing and the drift in US policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

Experts examine the complex economic, strategic, and ideological issues confronting U.S. policymakers in this critical bilateral relationship.

This book focuses on the process of competition in our private health insurance market and its effects on the cost of care and access to insurance coverage.

This book contains major writings by five of America's most distinguished political scientists and political theorists.

This book tackles a basic moral question: "Can a Christian work for a corporation?" Michael Novak's answer? "Yes!"

Describes the revolution in US fiscal policy that occurred between the administrations of Presidents Hoover and Kennedy, when the principle of balancing the budget gave way to that of managing government expenditure and taxes. This new edition includes an introduction on the past 20 years.