books by AEI Press     books:     AEI Press      In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State Charles Murray AEI Press, 2006 A Bold Thought Experiment We need more books like "In our Hands," a bold thought experiment, which questions the underlying assumptions of our current welfare state. In an era, when we can no longer truly hope for "reform" of our national economy, except through the minor adjustments of ...             Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy For a Unipolar World (Irving Kristol Lecture) Charles Krauthammer AEI Press, 2004 This essay examines four contending schools of American foreign policy.             After The People Vote: A Guide To The Electoral College, Third Edition John C. Fortier, Akhil Amar, ... AEI Press, 2004 More than a handbook, After the People Vote also features several essays by eminent scholars of political science and election law. AEI scholar Norman J. Ornstein provides a short history of disputed elections prior to the 2000 election, and John C. Fortier explains what happened in the 2000 election and the significance of Bush v. Gore. In ...             The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy Richard Vedder, Wendell Cox AEI Press, 2007 A fascinating discussion of the actual history of Wal-Mart, the retail trade, and Wal-Mart's critics One of the worst aspects of politics is that the issues politicians use are too often used to commit people one way or the other based on emotions rather than reason or a set of facts. In recent years, with the advent of very accurate polling, politicians and those ...             Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges Robert H. Bork AEI Press, 2003 Dogmatic Ideology at its Best...or Worst Whether or not one agrees with Robert Bork's opinions (I do as they are in the Goldwater libertarian vein) he has never been one to opine without an intellectual basis. The book uses a phrase that aptly describes the situation: lifestyle socialism. This is not ...             The Permanent Campaign and Its Future Thomas E. Mann AEI Press, 2000 Eminent political scientists weigh the benefits and the costs of this state of permanent campaign and describe the kind of political system likely to emerge within it.             Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics Leon R. Kass AEI Press, 2004 Heart Felt Discussion of Life Issues Life and dignity of it concern this author. As well, science and its advancement concern him greatly. What this book concerns itself with are the intersection of the two. What Kass fears are that the two are moving in opposing directions, i.e. that science has ...             Character and Cops, Fifth Edition: Ethics in Policing, Fifth Edition Edwin J. Delattre AEI Press, 2006 An excellent book In this fifth edition of his acclaimed text on law enforcement ethics, Edwin Delattre takes on some of the toughest moral problems facing police officers these days. And he does so with a great amount of clarity and tact. Although some chapters probably do go on a ...             Privatizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks: Why and How Peter J. Wallison AEI Press, 2004 Many people want to tighten federal regulations governing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)-Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. But better regulations will not do much to reduce the real risks that the GSEs create for U.S. taxpayers and the economy, and aren't likely to have real force. Fannie and Freddie are the ...             Serving Two Masters, Yet Out of Control: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Peter J. Wallison AEI Press, 2001 Because two disparate clients demand loyalty from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these government-sponsored entities must fulfill two ultimately irreconcilable roles.             Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power Thomas Donnelly AEI Press, 2008 The small size of America's land forces has been, and for years to come will remain, the tightest constraint on U.S. military strategy. The cutbacks of the Clinton years and, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration's failure to foresee the need for larger ground forces have created a double bind: it is difficult to ...             No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB Frederick Hess AEI Press, 2007 A good source of information about the realities of NCLB and what can be done to improve it Let me say right up front that I think the Federal Government has no Constitutional mandate for being involved in education. Before the 1960s everyone knew that and the reason it stepped in then was twofold. First, to use federal funds as a lever to integrate ...             Russia's Revolution: 1989-2006 Leon Aron AEI Press, 2007 A view of the new Russia that will give you better depth perception than American media will provide Leon Aron was a young man of 24 when he came to the United States from Russia in 1978. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1985 and is a biographer of Boris Yeltsin. He is also a great admirer and supporter of what Yeltsin did to help its revolution away from ...             Global Population Aging and Its Economic Consequences (The Henry Wendt Lecture Series) Rondald D. Lee AEI Press, 2007 Get and read this short and compelling book. Yes, you SHOULD be concerned. This short book should not only raise real concerns about the economic future of the world, but of your own plans for yourself and especially your children and grandchildren. Ronald Lee uses some very interesting charts and very tightly written prose to show how the ...             Federal Preemption: States' Powers, National Interests Richard A. Epstein AEI Press, 2007 While likely tough sledding for the general reader, anyone interested in this topic will find this book quite valuable Despite my enthusiasm for this text, I have to warn general readers that this is a legal treatise on a complex legal and Constitutional subject. If you want something that makes simple claims for the Constitution and sees clearly what a hundred years and more of ...          products you might be interested in search for books consequences, democratic, half-decade, preemption, privatizing, revolution      geepe.com    web we recommend A view of the new Russia that will give you better depth perception than American media will provide randomly chosen VHS: Superbook Value Pack, Vol. 3