A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how various federal environmental...

Big Steel is the first comprehensive history of the company at the center of America's twentieth-century industrial life--the United States Steel Corporation. Granted unprecedented access to the U.S. Steel archives, Warren tells the compelling history of this business.

A Brookings Institution Press, Committee for Economic Development, and Urban Institute Press publication For decades, the use of vouchers has been widely debated. But often lost in the heat of debate is the fact that vouchers are just another tool in the government's tool chest, a restricted...

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Dislcaimer -- List of Acronyms -- Table of Legislation -- Introduction -- Part One: The WTO Negotiation Context -- 1. The WTO's Work Relating to Digitally-Delivered Content Products -- 1.1 WTO...

Intro -- Proving Up -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision and the Changing Nature of Property -- 2. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies (1785-1862) -- 3. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies on Arid Land -- 4....

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Global Problems and Localist Solutions -- 2 Economic Development and Localist Knowledge -- 3 Can Localism Be Just and Sustainable? -- 4 The Politics of Local Retailing -- 5 The Challenges of Urban Agriculture -- 6 Local Energy and the...

The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In...

In The Road to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of U.S. ground transportation and finds that, like the roads themselves, transportation policy is in desperate need of repair. A shift toward increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-contractual agreements that allow...

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by...

With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region. Many observers welcome this development, highlighting the benefits of increased trade and investment, as well as diplomatic cooperation, for both sides....