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In 2012 the Resolution Project proposed that a new Chapter 14 be added to the Bankruptcy Code, exclusively designed to deal with the reorganization or liquidation of the US's large financial institutions. In this book, the contributors expand on their proposal to improve the prospect that large financial institutions could be successfully reorganised or liquidated.

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The expert contributors to this volume assess recent US court actions in school adequacy lawsuits and their impact on student outcomes. They show that simply throwing more resources at the problem has not brought about a solution and call for changes centred around accountability, incentives, and more informed parents and policymakers.

Explores how US state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, and forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools a fairer chance to succeed.

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine, " Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unsparing candor.

Offers an analysis of the 'grand cycle' in social organisation of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. It explains how today's explosion of freely available information is fuelling the democratic free-market revolution and reveals its universal contemporary consequences.

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.

An examination of property rights reforms in Russia before the revolution reveals the advantages and pitfalls of liberal democracy in action - from a government that could be described as neither liberal nor democratic. The author analyses whether truly liberal reform can be effectively established from above versus from the bottom up, or whether it is simply a product of exceptional historical circumstances.

A diverse collection of readings from scholarly journals, government reports, think tank studies, newspapers, and books that offers a comprehensive look at the drug debate. With each section featuring opposing articles written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields, the book offers a concise view of the many divergent viewpoints surrounding drug policy in America.

Robert Zelnick examines Israel's disengagement from Gaza and what it might lead to in the future. He details the thought behind the policy and the impact of the loss of Ariel Sharon, analyses the Palestinian response from both moderates and Hamas, and underscores the politically realist-minded assumptions that continue to drive the policy forward.

Drawing from a December 2013 Hoover Institution conference on NAFTA at 20, this book brings together distinguished academics who have studied the effects of NAFTA with high-level policy makers to present a comprehensive view of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It looks at the conception, creation, outcomes so far, and the future of NAFTA from the perspective of economists, historians, and policy makers.

In this collection of bold and wide-ranging essays, Fouad Ajami offers his views on the Middle East, commenting on the state of affairs in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and more. He brings into focus the current struggles of the region through detailed historical standpoints and a highly personal perspective.

Examines the status of US health care, particularly in light of the Affordable Care Act, and presents a series of key reforms to meet the significant health care challenges facing the US. Atlas proposes a six-point, strategic, incentive-based reform plan for US health care. The plan aims to instil market-based competition, empower consumers, and reduce the federal government's authority over health care.

Traces the origins of key trends in recent Iraqi history to explain the political and social forces that produced them, particularly during the intense period of civil war between 2003 and 2009. Along the way, the author looks at some of the most significant players in the new Iraq, explaining how they have risen to prominence and what their aims are.

Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—The Crusade Years is a previously unknown memoir that Hoover composed and revised during the 1940s and 1950s. A parallel volume to Hoover's Freedom Betrayed, this work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his philanthropic interests, and his unrelenting "crusade against collectivism” in American life.

Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm. In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing the network of contacts that helped Pasternak smuggle the typescripts of Doctor Zhivago outside the Soviet Union and following the vicissitudes of the typescripts when they arrived in the West.

Examines how Israel is facing a new and changing regional order in the Middle East, from the ramifications of the Arab Spring to a receding US role and beyond. Itamar Rabinovich looks specifically at Israel's evolving relationships with Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinians.

The American ability to inspire - which we call exceptionalism - is not automatic. It takes continued efforts to be realized in a changing world. In this book, scholars at the Hoover Institution offer a series of accessible policy ideas for civic, economic, and security architecture that would shore up the long-term foundations of American strengths.

Both the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes throughout their histories. In this book, Thomas H. Henriksen examines the warrior-spy connection both before and after the formation of the SOF and the CIA, suggesting that their history is notable for instances of cooperating, competing, circumven...

Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding that market.