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Offering a perspective on the influence of the military complex on US society, this title presents an account that follows the rise and decline of the antimilitarist tradition. It provides a documented historical survey of notable issues and landmarks that have affected the role of the civilian and the military until the mid 1950s.
In this new policy report, so-called government ""recoupment"" lawsuits are carefully examined and found to be flagrant abuses of the constitutional separation of powers, seriously undermining over 200 hundred years of common-law torts adjudication.
Despite having surmounted numerous obstacles, the Affordable Care Act remains highly controversial and faces ongoing calls for its replacement. The question is: replace it with what? In A Better Choice, economist and John C. Goodman answers the question clearly and concisely.
Many feminists have believed that government is the natural ally of the women's movement. However, this book demonstrates that the opposite is true. McElroy demonstrates that in vital issues from sex and birth control to business and science, government has been the real obstacle in preventing women from achieving personal freedom and equal rights.
The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion, particularly in the United States and Europe. Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood, and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration.
Analysing large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. This book reveals how providing local public goods through freely competitive, market-based entrepreneurship is renewing communities and strengthening civil society.
A powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct ""multiculturalism"" has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. This book exposes the real impact of multiculturalism on the institution most closely identified with the politically correct decline of higher education - Stanford University.
This book not only examines the crucial role of private coinage in fueling Great Britain's Industrial Revolution, but also sheds light on contemporary private-sector alternatives to government-issued money, such as digital monies, cash cards, electronic funds transfer, and - outside of the United States - spontaneous 'dollarization'.
Makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver better products to consumers, at lower prices, without government intervention. This publication's careful scholarship, well-founded hypotheses, and refutations of previously accepted theories-extending far beyond the Microsoft case-make this publication a vital piece of understanding for the future of technology and economics.
Economists Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok present their study of tens of thousands of tort cases from across the US. The result is the most complete picture of the US system of civil justice to date. Examining three of the key players of the tort system, Helland and Tabarrok conclude that the tort system is badly broken in some respects but functions surprisingly well in others.
Offers a sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. Miron's analysis leads to a disturbing finding - the more resources given to the fight against drugs, the greater the homicide rate.
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