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Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that with our aging population larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can continue to afford the increasing costs of care. How Medicare--with the Bush administration's reforms and a slumping economy--will meet the needs of its recipients without adequate financing is among the most pressing issues facing this country today. Daniel N. Shaviro sees the future of our national healthcare system as hinging on the issue of funding. The author of books on the economic issues surrounding Social Security and budget deficits, Shaviro is a skilled guide for anyone seeking to understand the financial aspects of government programs. Who Should Pay for Medicare? offers an accessible overview of how Medicare operates as a fiscal system. Discussions of Medicare reform often focus on the expansion of program treatment choices but not on the question of who should pay for Medicare's services. Shaviro's book addresses this critical issue, examining the underanalyzed dynamics of the significant funding gap facing Medicare. He gives a balanced, nonpartisan evaluation of various reform alternatives--considering everything from the creation of new benefits in this fiscal crunch to tax cuts to the demographic pressures we face and the issues this will raise when future generations have to pay for the care of today's seniors. Who Should Pay for Medicare? speaks to seniors who feel entitled to expanded coverage, younger people who wonder what to expect from the government when they retire, and Washington policy makers who need an indispensable guidebook to Medicare's future.

In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and democratic globalism.

Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy.

The Happiness of the People was the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute's Annual Dinner on March 11, 2009. The Irving Kristol Award is given annually to a scholar who has made extraordinary contributions to improved public policy and social welfare.

This monograph suggests that the world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity.

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in incomenot poverty per seis bad for people's health.

This book explores the negative consequences of attempts to protect key U.S. manufacturing industries through the use of antidumping laws.

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.

The authors offer principles for reform designed to encourage equity, efficiency, and accountability in all publicly funded health care programs.

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.

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 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 book examines statistics on illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997.

This work examines the relationship between economic inequality and Intelligence Quotient (IQ), to see how much of observed income inequality is attributable to differences in earning capabilities that are closely associated with differences in cognitive ability.

This book considers federalism's constitutional basis and its practical applications.

This book is the first systematic study of the use and effectiveness of the antitrust consent decree in the federal enforcement of antitrust laws.