Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.

Contributors discuss proposals the legislative veto, the regulatory budget, mandatory applications of cost-benefit analysis, and the Carter administration's regulatory reform initiatives.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

Whatarethe appropriate role of government in food safety and the changes that should be made in federal policies?

This volume brings togetheressays that critique recent U.S. agriculture policy and propose alternatives to the current regulatory regime.

This volume considers whether the first major overhaul of U.S. communications policy in more than sixty years is accomplishing its purposes.

This book assesses the likely consequences of tighter science budgets and suggests ways in which U.S. science can come to terms with downsizing.