Books published by AEI Press

Minimum Wages: Measures and Industry Effects by John M. Peterson deals with the adverse effects of minimum wages on employment by industry.

The dramatic increase in the demand for nursing-home care during the past two decades can be attributed to two factors: the growing number of elderly people and the greater availability of such care under the Medicaid program, enacted in 1965.

Money and Liberty, by S. Herbert Frankel, examines the psychological and political foundations of the modern money economy.

The substance of the federal form of government is largely determined by the degree of independence accorded the individual states. This study examines one proposal to increase federal standard on state unemployment insurance benefits.

National Health Insurance in Ontario: The Effects of a Policy of Cost Control by William S. Comanor examines the implications for the United States of Ontario's experience with national health insurance.

New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978, edited by Howard R. Penniman, documents the latest political upheaval in a country long known for its placid public life.

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.

The essays in this volume analyze the entitlement programs responsible for more than two-thirds of all federal outlays, exclusive of interest on debt. Rather than dealing with the level of current outlays in the current budget as most other discussions do, the authors focus on fundamental inequities and problems likely to emerge over the long term.

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

As the papers presented in this volume indicate, the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic linkages between Mexico and the United States are too numerous to count.

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.