This primer highlightsboth the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.

This book explores the many ways that Congress makes economic decisions. 

Has the temporary tax credit for research and development encouraged industrial innovation? Is there a correlation between productivity and R&D spending? Should Congress make this tax credit permanent before it expires at the end of 1985?  

In No Way Out: Persistent Government Interventions in the Great Contraction, editor Vincent R. Reinhart brings together an array of professional and academic authors to generate a narrative of the 2007–08 financial crisis, its causes, and likely recurrences.

Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s, edited by D. Gale Johnson, consists of the proceedings of a conference on the agricultural legislation needed for the unfolding decade. 

An insider’s perspective on the bureaucratic structure of governmental institutions that shape economic policy, and the incentives and limitations of the individuals who head them.

Recent failures of monetary and fiscal policy reflect deficiencies in prevailing theories of demand management. Taking available data into account, this book discusses the merits and shortcomings of Keynesian and monetarist approaches and develops the lines along which our theories need to be...

In his new book, Peter Wallison argues the Dodd-Frank Act was the result of a false narrative about the 2008 financial crisis, blaming the crisis on the private sectors when in fact it was caused by the US government’s housing policies. This was not harmless error; the act will suppress...

For many decades the United States has enjoyed great economic success in international markets. In recent years, however, the competitivenessof many American goods and services has diminished. 

The U.S. disability system is failing--growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor outcomes to those with disabilities.