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  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $26.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD

  • Pitch Like a Pro

    A Guide for Young Pitchers and Their Coaches, Little League Through High School

    by Leo Mazzone, Jim Rosenthal ...
    A World Series champion and former MLB pitching coach shows how young baseball pitchers from Little League through high school can improve on the field.Leo Mazzone was one of pro baseball's premier pitching coaches. In his years with the Atlanta Braves, he trained several Cy Young Award winners and helped lead his team to the World Series.In Pitch like a Pro, Mazzone and coauthor Jim Rosenthal ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Unleashed

    A Dark Enemies to Lovers Bratva Romance

    by Jane Henry ...
    Narrated by Aaron Shedlock, Kai Kennicot ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Bratva Kings

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    I wake up chained to the bed of a stranger.He says I’m his wife.I have nothing—no money. No friends.No escape.He’s everything I never imagined: ruthless, calculating, feared. A beautiful monster with a face like a god’s, cold and untouchable.A mafia kingpin whose wealth could buy empires and whose power makes the world tremble.My captor.My husband.He vows to protect me at all cost, a... ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • Setting National Priorities

    The 2000 Election and Beyond

    Edited by Robert D. Reischauer, Henry J. Aaron ...
    ""If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention...it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget."" - The Washington Post For the first time in more than four decades, the federal budget has registered two consecutive surpluses, and the need to reduce the deficit is not casting a pall over the policy ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Closing the Deficit

    How Much Can Later Retirement Help?

    Edited by Gary Burtless, Henry J. Aaron ...
    As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue-encouraging people to work longer than they now do.Workers would spend more years paying taxes and fewer years drawing pension and health benefits. But how much difference to spending and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • 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 and ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD