Bøger udgivet af Hoover Institution Press,U.S.

The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia.

In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. This translated volume brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.

As the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability, this book emerges as an especially timely volume. It examines key policy issues, offering perspectives on US monetary policy tools and instruments.

Considers how digital misinformation might affect the likelihood of international conflict and how it might influence the perceptions and actions of leaders and their publics before and during a crisis. The authors sound the alarm about how social media fuels information overload and promotes 'fast thinking' over deliberation.

In late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distil from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique.

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change: to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war. This book offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as president: persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War.

Eric Hoffer was unknown in the American literary and philosophical scene in 1951 when he published his first book, The True Believer. Almost overnight he became a public figure. Tom Bethell paints a new, insightful portrait of this American original. He draws much of his material from Hoffer's personal papers and interviews with those who knew the man.

These twenty-five essays, covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime, examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

Brings together the views of leading thinkers - in science, medicine, international and constitutional law, law enforcement, intelligence, and crisis management - on all diverse aspects of the threat of biological and chemical weapons.

The wartime memoirs of Count Rene de Chambrun provide a fascinating inside look at the world of some of the most powerful leaders and social figures in America during the turbulent early 1940s. Utilizing the detailed notes he made during that period, de Chambrun recounts the story of his dramatic wartime years.

Evaluates the complex developments between the United States and Korea and offers policy recommendations for how both countries in the future might avoid the bitter politiczation of trade disputes of the recent past and expand their economic relations.

Presenting Wolfe's letters from 1939 with unpublished speeches and writings from the Hoover Archives, this volume illuminates his struggle to uncover the truth about the history of Soviet Russia and his anguish over his earlier allegiances not only to Lenin but to Karl Marx as well.

Provides an analysis of the centrally planned, socialist state economies and their common percentage in the Stalinist Plan introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. This dynamic presentation of the economic models clearly shows the transformation of the original Stalinist model.

Examines Sino-Japanese economic diplomacy. This original in-depth analysis concentrates on a few salient cases of Sino-Japanese economic interaction: a multibillion-dollar steel complex at Baoshan, the joint offshore oil development in the Bohai Sea, and Japanese government loans provided to fund China's important construction projects.

A collection of Bertram Wolfe's unpublished essays about Lenin.

With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. In The Case against the Employee Free Choice Act, Richard Epstein examines this proposed legislation and why it is a large step backward in labour relations that will work to the detriment of employees, employers, and the public at large.

Kori Schake examines key questions about the United States' position of power in the world.

This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the US at home and around the globe including critical issues regarding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iraq, and other key locales.

In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.

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.

Assesses the changes that have occurred in the twenty years since A Nation at Risk, which urged major reforms in American education, was issued by the National Education Commission. The book offers recommendations based on three core principles - accountability, choice, and transparency - that can rekindle America's confidence in public education.

This review of the furious debate in America over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools - and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.

The US school system lacks the marketplace accountability of schools competing with one another and the further accountability of large-scale examination systems, both of which are associated with high achievement. It is clear that after a quarter century of poor progress, the time has come for high academic standards and accountability.

After political leaders mismanaged the electricity crisis, California now faces an electricity blight while it struggles to recover from its self-imposed wounds. The California Electricity Crisis focuses on policy decisions, their consequences, and alternatives: the saga California has faced and is still facing.

Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin's most prominent victims: Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.

Provides the first comprehensive account of Azerbaijan's rich and tumultuous history up to the present time.

"Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Jacket.

Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.