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Books, Resources & Products We Recommend - Lobbyists, Trade Groups, and Think Tanks
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| A New Deal For Social Security |
Michael Tanner
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This book traces Social Security from its inception to its current crisis, showing that the program's problems are the result of a fundamental flaw in its design. Social Security taxes are not saved or invested in any way. Instead, taxes paid by today's workers are used to pay benefits to today's retirees. Workers have to hope that when they retire another generation of workers will pay the taxes to provide their benefits. Like any pyramid scheme, this system cannot be .... [Read More] |
| Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace |
Lawrence Lessig
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The book traces the consequences of code as the law in cyberspace, in a lucid an insightful way. It discusses the paradigm shift that will transform the debate about the architecture of cyberspace. |
| Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us) |
Mona Charen
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Do-Gooders is a guide to the smug know-it-alls in politics, the news media, and Hollywood who think they know what’s best for the poor and other needy Americans. From Marian Wright Edelman to John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Rob Reiner, this book will skewer the liberals by name. It covers topics such as:
Education: Do-gooders send their own kids to private schools while working to deny poor children a better education through voucher programs. .... [Read More] |
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| Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America |
Burton Folsom
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Folsom focuses on a number of great business leaders who, through their failures and success, made their state and nation into a great economic power by the end of the 19th century. Brilliant entrepreneurs such as John Jacob Astor, Herbert Dow, and Will Kellogg. Possibly the most fascinating chapter in this work is on Michigan's attempt in the 1830's to 1840's to create a network of state owned railroads and canals. It is a welcome dissenting view for an age in which .... [Read More] |
| Empowering Health Care Consumers Through Tax Reform |
Grace-Marie Turner
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Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, edited by Grace-Marie Arnett of the Galen Institute, contains a collection of essays by a group of leading health policy analysts who answer these questions and more. In this peer-reviewed book, published by the University of Michigan Press, the authors explore the intersection of health and tax policy to offer a road map for reform and paint a vision of a revived free-market health care system. They offer a .... [Read More] |
| Future of Ideas, The |
Lawrence Lessig
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In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and .... [Read More] |
| Government By The People |
Stephanie Vance
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Do you want to participate in your government, but aren't sure where to begin? Have you been trying to communicate with your Representatives in Congress but aren't pleased with the results? If you can answer yes to these questions, then order this book. It explains, in clear and simple terms, why it's important to communicate with your representatives and how to do so effectively. Packed with resource tips, real-life examples, and solid, common-sense advice, "How to .... [Read More] |
| Miracle Cure |
Sally Pipes
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America has wealth, innovation, and access to the best of everything. So why is our health-care system so broken? Why does it cost more than ever and deliver less? How do we solve the problems of the uninsured and seniors who lack drug coverage?
And equally important, why is the Canadian system, widely touted as a sparkling example of compassion and universal access, actually a disastrous model to be avoided?
This book cuts through the fear and confusion .... [Read More] |
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| QBQ The Question Behind the Question |
John Miller
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This remarkable and timely book gives a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action, with astonishing results: problems are solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teamwork thrives, and people adapt to change more quickly. QBQ! is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, .... [Read More] |
| The New New Left |
Steve Malanga
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The book tells of the new groups forming based on their own narrow economic interests. The New New Left concentrates its political energies toward larger government and higher taxes-to benefit the public sector. |
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