Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
Restoring Quality Health Care
A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Restoring Quality Health Care, Dr. Scott Atlas examines the status of US health care, particularly in light of the Affordable Care Act, and presents a series of key reforms to meet the significant health care challenges facing the nation. Atlas proposes a six-point, strategic, incentive-based reform...
School Figures
The Data behind the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K–12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
by Evan F. Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A contributors' "who's who" from the academic and policy communities explain and provide perspectives on John Taylor's revolutionary thinking about monetary policy. They explore some of the literature that Taylor inspired and help us understand how the new ways of thinking that he pioneered have influenced actual policy here and abroad.
An Agenda for Economic Reform in Korea
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An Agenda for Economic Reform in Korea looks at Korea's economic problems from the perspective of the American experience with economic reforms and sheds new light on the problems of economic reform facing nations all over the world. The authors examine such issues as corporate governance, social...
The Second Twentieth Century
How the Information Revolution Shapes Business, States, and Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jean-Jacques Rosa offers an analysis of the "grand cycle" in social organization of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. He explains how today's explosion...
by James L. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
After political leaders mismanaged the electricity crisis, California now faces an electricity blight while it struggles to recover from its self-imposed wounds. The California Electricity Crisis focuses on policy decisions, their consequences, and alternatives: the saga California has faced and is still facing.
Skating on Stilts
Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Stewart A. Baker, a former Homeland Security official, examines the technologies we love—jet travel, computer networks, and biotech—and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of terrorism unless we change our current course a few degrees and overcome resistance to change from business,...
Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime
The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An examination of property rights reforms in Russia before the revolution reveals the advantages and pitfalls of liberal democracy in action—from a government that could be described as neither liberal nor democratic. The author analyzes whether truly liberal reform can be effectively established...
by Williamson F. Evers, Lance T. Izumi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this book some of the brightest minds in education research have studied pressing questions about teacher quality and practices, reviewed thousands of education studies, examined state test scores, explored education theories, and then affirmed that we know what works. We must now ensure that the system provides the best possible education for kids.
Paul Robert Hanna
A Life of Expanding Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Analyzing and ultimately placing in context Paul Hanna's vast contributions, this book provides a richly textured narrative of his life and his major role in twentieth-century American education and the development of modern American education.
Politicizing Science
The Alchemy of Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this book leading scientists share their experiences and observations of developing and testing hypotheses, offering insights on the dangers of manipulating science for political gain. It describes how politicization--whether by misapplication, overextension, or outright manipulation of the scientific...
The Struggle across the Taiwan Strait
The Divided China Problem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A concise and informative history of how China divided in 1949 into two regimes, why they struggled to achieve the same political goal-reunification of China—and why their struggle today continues in a more complex and dangerous way. The authors detail how the changes brought about by the 2000 election...
When the AK-47s Fall Silent
Revolutionaries, Guerrillas, and the Dangers of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The majority of Latin American revolutionaries and guerrillas have now laid down their weapons and opted to participate in that region's democratic processes. What brought about this transformation? When the AK-47s Fall Silent brings together for the first time many of these former Latin revolutionaries from both sides of the conflicts—who tell their own stories, in their own words.
Education and Capitalism
How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The authors call on the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, they show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K–12 education.