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Government Project tells the story of an attempt by theUS government to remake the lives of some of its citizens by establishing a cooperativefarm in Pinal County, Arizona, in 1937. These individuals were among the mostdesperately poor and disadvantaged in the nation. Casa Grande Valley Farms was an elaborate venture that providedthe Americans who volunteered to settle there with housing, work, and theopportunity to earn income. For five years, the farm succeeded. The revenuesfrom the sale of its crops gave the Casa Grande settlers material comfort andwealth far beyond what they had ever possessed. But in the farm's seventh year of operation, the inhabitantsshuttered it and walked away with hardly anything, to the shock and dismay ofthe government officials overseeing it. Government Project explains what went wrong at CasaGrande. In telling this story, it illuminates larger truths about human natureand the limits of governance.
"US policy toward the Indo-Pacific is in the midst of a sea change. Increasing recognition of Chinese aggression has spurred new legislation, alliances, and defense initiatives to bolster the US against Chinese competition. Yet US policy toward Taiwan remains stagnant, reflecting a lack of understanding of the threat the island faces from an emboldened and embattled China. In each chapter, AEI's leading Foreign and Defense Policy scholars explain how US policy toward Taiwan must develop--and why it must develop that way. They explain why the US should care about Taiwan's sovereignty. They also examine the consequences of not defending the principles that the international order--which has made us safe and prosperous--relies on and what it would take to successfully protect Taiwan and the international order more broadly from Chinese predation"--
This book assesses the current status of the public utility deregulation movement in the United States.
In response to the whirlwind electronics revolution of the 1990's, the European Union, Canada, and the United States launched new liberalization policies aimed at opening all telecommunications markets to competition. This report presents two views of the progress towards competitionone for North America and one for Europe.
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