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  • Values and Public Policy

    Edited by Thomas E. Mann, Timothy T. Taylor, Henry J. Aaron ...
    It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control. Are American values declining as so many suggest? And are those values at the root of many social problems today? Shaped by experience and public policies, people's ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Politics and the Professors

    The Great Society in Perspective

    by Henry J. Aaron ...
    In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Comparable Worth Controversy

    by Cameran M. Lougy, Henry J. Aaron ...
    Series series Studies of Government Finance: Second Series
    The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worth-measured by such criteria as working conditions, degree of difficulty, and knowledge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Assessing Tax Reform

    by Harvey Galper, Henry J. Aaron ...
    Reform of the United States tax system has become a central political issue. Assessing Tax Reform is a concise, nontechnical book to help general readers and students understand the tax reform issues Congress is now debating. Henry Aaron and Harvey Galper lay out the major alternative proposals and analyze principles of taxation that can be used for judging them. They explore the issues ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Economic Effects of Social Security

    by Henry J. Aaron ...
    Series series Studies of Government Finance: Second Series
    The social security system affects people throughout most of their lives, at work and in retirement. The supposed effects of social security on saving, labor supply, and the distribution of income figure prominently in current debates about whether and how to change the system. Theorists have developed alternative analytical frameworks for studying social security, but all involve extreme ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Serious and Unstable Condition

    Financing America's Health Care

    by Henry J. Aaron ...
    The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated. The goals of controlling spiraling health care costs and extending insurance coverage or even maintaining current ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics

    Edited by Henry J. Aaron ...
    Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make. Can they be depended on to plan with foresight and make sound decisions? According to standard economic analysis the answer is a qualified ""yes."" But studies by psychologists, sociologists, and economists themselves raise doubts about this comforting appraisal. This volume by analysts trained in economics ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform

    Edited by William G. Gale, Henry J. Aaron ...
    The tax system profoundly affects countless aspects of private behavior. It is a powerful policy influence on the distribution of income and it is the one aspect of government that almost every citizen cannot avoid. With tax reform high on the political agenda, this book brings together studies of leading tax economists and lawyers to assess the various reform proposals and examine the effects of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Uneasy Compromise

    Problems of a Hybrid Income-Consumption Tax

    Edited by Harvey Galper, Joseph A. Pechman, Henry J. Aaron ...
    Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades. In practice, tax systems everywhere are mixed or ""hybrid"" systems. And while legislators have reasons for enacting such systems, the mix results in inequities, inefficiencies, and abuse.For Uneasy Compromise, Brookings brought together some of the nation's most ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Setting Domestic Priorities

    What Can Government Do?

    Edited by Charles L. Schultze, Henry J. Aaron ...
    In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly deteriorated. With governments facing large deficits and slowly growing revenues, and public distrust in the efficiency of government and elected officials at all-time highs, the authors ask, ""What can ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Setting National Priorities

    Policy for the Nineties

    Edited by Henry J. Aaron ...
    Setting National Priorities continues the highly acclaimed and influential series of books that examine domestic and foreign policy choices confronting the United States. Members of the Brookings staff join outside experts to evaluate America's course through the next decade.In clear and nontechnical terms the contributors explain and evaluate options for the United States in the 1990s, consider ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Can America Afford to Grow Old?

    Paying for Social Security

    by Gary Burtless, Barry P. Bosworth, Henry J. Aaron ...
    Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population. ... Read more

    $17.09 USD