Independent imprint: 156 books
Vietnam Rising
Culture and Change in Asia's Tiger Cub
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
From Vietnam’s recent acceptance into the World Trade Organization to its post-Vietnam War reform and socialist ideals, this overview concisely examines the cultural, political, and economic changes currently at work in Vietnam within a historical context and then discusses the effects such changes...
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Based on newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive yet hidden history of how the Nazi dictatorship made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate its power. The countless...
Boom and Bust Banking
The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions on how to boost the economy from leading economists. The...
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Is the United States tort system in crisis? CBS television’s 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out "jackpot justice," and Newsweek has called America a "Lawsuit Hell." Other observers of the legal system, however, argue that the tort crisis is a myth. Although both sides...
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural...
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief...
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In The Midas Paradox Scott Sumner provides a fresh, new narrative in regards to the Great Depression and its economic backstory. He points to various ways in which the modern day understanding of the Great Depression is flawed and how the causality of it has been largely misunderstood. The understanding...
Financing Failure
A Century of Bailouts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Probably no issue during the most recent financial crisis aroused more passion than financial institution bailouts. Focusing on the policymaking behind the decisions to bail out these institutions—not just during the most recent crisis, but also throughout history—this account argues that the...
Antitrust and Monopoly
Anatomy of a Policy Failure
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The stated purpose of antitrust laws is to protect competition and the public interest. But do such laws actually restrict the competitive process, harming consumers and serving the special interests of a few politically-connected competitors? Is antitrust law a necessary defense against the predatory...
Fire & Smoke
Government, Lawsuits, and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The state of Mississippi’s lawsuit against tobacco companies in 1994 was quickly emulated by more than a dozen other states and then the federal government. Not to be outdone, more than a dozen cities and the federal government have followed the city of New Orleans’s lead and sued gun manufacturers....
by Phil Angelides, Bill Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
In the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the President signed into law on May 20, 2009, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, creating the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and...
Risky Business
Insurance Markets and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Today’s insurance regulation in the United States is at a crossroads: while some segments of the insurance industry are moving away from a state-based approach toward regulation, others favor a greater role for the federal government—despite the opposition from other stakeholders. Written by leading...
Beyond Politics
The Roots of Government Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property...
School Choices
True and False
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The school choice movement has gained political momentum in recent years, having established programs in Milwaukee, Florida, Texas, and elsewhere. Yet, as economist John Merrifield argues in this detailed analysis, today's school choice programs are nothing like the “free market in education”...