Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His study...
Growing Old
Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money Management after the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
While the immediate dangers from the recent financial crisis have abated-much of the financial system has returned to profitability and the economy is growing, albeit slowly-the damage to the economy will linger for years. Among the many impacts is the problem that may be most acute in the United...
Delivering Aid Differently
Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
We live in a new reality of aid. Gone is the traditional bilateral relationship, the old-fashioned mode of delivering aid, and the perception of the third world as a homogenous block of poor countries in the south. Delivering Aid Differently describes the new realities of a $200 billion aid industry...
The Soviet Mind
Russian Culture under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Berlin’s great powers of observation combine with his great knowledge and literary gifts to provide us with a fascinating series of insights.”
-Geoffrey Riklin
George Kennan, the architect of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin the patron saint among the commentators...
Central Banking after the Great Recession
Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The global financial crisis is largely behind us, but the challenges it poses to the future stability of the world's economic system affects everyone from American families to Main Street businesses to Wall Street financial powerhouses. It has provoked controversy over the best way to reduce the risk...
Transpacific Rebalancing
Implications for Trade and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Persistently large external imbalances in the world economy contributed to the outbreak of the recent financial crisis. The current account imbalances were particularly severe among the economies that border on the Pacific-the United States ran large deficits, with offsetting surpluses in East Asia....
by Jim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.
Operating...
Arab Society in Revolt
The West's Mediterranean Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them. One of the several virtues of this book is precisely that it brings different perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of recent and current events in the Arab...
Financing the 2008 Election
Assessing Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The 2008 elections were by any standard historic. The nation elected its first African American president, and the Republicans nominated their first female candidate for vice president. More money was raised and spent on federal contests than in any election in U.S. history. Barack Obama raised a...
Healing the Wounded Giant
Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense...
Big Bets and Black Swans 2014
A Presidential Briefing Book
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs. He's facing a number of critical challenges-the ongoing war in Syria, the Iran nuclear negotiations, an enigmatic North Korea and other significant crises in world affairs. The president's advisors are busy...
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China
Living with the Leviathan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied...
The End of Nostalgia
Mexico Confronts the Challenges of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Today's Mexico is strongly determined to become a full player in the globalizing international economy. It has increased its manufacturing output in areas such as automobiles and electronics, and both corporate and government sectors would like to take greater strides toward being a full global player....
The Wall
The Real Costs of a Barrier between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States’...