Publications -- Special Publications

Oct 30, 2003

The Developed World's Demographic Transition

This bleak assessment of developed economies' future fiscal prospects ignores two factors that are increasingly raised as possible sources of economic salvation. The first is the macroeconomic impact of aging, specifically the potential for capital deepening. The second is the option to dramatically increase immigration.

Mar 01, 2003

Reforming Medicaid In Ohio: A Framework for Using Consumer Choice and Competition to Spur Improved Outcomes

Ohio's Medicaid costs have risen faster than health costs in the private sector generally. Part of the reason is Ohio Medicaid pays for health care in ways that needlessly contribute to rising health care costs.

Nov 01, 2000

Notes on Freedom: Individual Liberty vs. Government Tyranny, 18th Century and Today

The principles of the American political process were slowly being fonnulated in the decades before the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution of the United States of America. The sources were largely English and had a profound impact on Americans of the 18th century. The Framers left us with an intellectual heritage in which rights flow from one's nature as a human being. By adherence to the rule of law, private property and individuals are protected from the potential tyranny of the many (democracy) and the totalitarianism or authoritarianism of the few (central control, collectivism). To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, Liberty requires continuous diligence to preserve freedom.

Oct 01, 2000

Social Security: Your Taxes, Your Benefits, Some Alternatives

Whether you're a steelworker or a waitress, a bus driver or an accountant, a large part of your earnings goes to the Social Security payroll tax every pay period. If you work for somebody else, part of the tax IS withheld from your paycheck, and your employer pays an equal amount on your behalf. If you work for yourself, you pay both parts.

Aug 21, 1998

Tax Briefing Book

This book covers the burden of taxation, taxes and growth, spending and deficits, tax fairness, taxes on Work, and other tax issues.

Mar 02, 1992

Patient Power

The thesis of this book is simple:  If we want to solve the nation's health care crisis, we must apply the same common-sense principles to medical care that we apply to other goods and services.  Health care is often said to be a necessity.  However, there are other necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.  If we paid for any of these items the way we pay for health care, we would face a similar crisis.  If we paid only 5 cents on the dollar for food, clothing, or housing, for example, costs would explode in each of those markets.

Oct 01, 1990

Voluntary Welfare: A Greater Role for Private Charities

There are remarkable differences among the people we label as 'poor'. The poverty population includes the elderly poor as well as unwed teenage mothers. It includes people with university degrees as well as people who are functionally illiterate. It includes the healthy as well as the sick. It includes people who are able to support themselves through productive work as well as people who are mentally impaired. It includes people who use the welfare system only for temporary relief as well as people who become perpetual wards of the state

May 01, 1990

FIGHTING THE WAR OF IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA

As this book goes to press, Latin American politics are undergoing dramatic and radical change. This change has been largely unnoticed by the North American news media - perhaps because it is overshadowed by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. But a radical shift toward freedom and free enterprise (one which parallels the change in Eastern Europe) is occurring throughout Latin America. It is a change that appeared all but impossible only a few years ago.

Aug 31, 1989

Is The Texas State Budget Balanced?

Texas is entering the 1990-91 fiscal period with a projected deficit of almost $1 billion. Because of this deficit, Texas taxpayers face an almost certain increase in taxes in the next biennium, including the possibility of an income tax.

Oct 12, 1984

PRIVATIZATION: The Proceedings of a Conference

On October 12, 1984 a conference was held in Washington. To my knowledge no conference like it had ever been held before.

The conference was attended by the leaders from the major public policy research institutes, by academics and researchers interested in policy issues, and by individuals who work in the Washington bureaucracy. The theme of the conference was: How Ideas Cause Change.

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