Agenda for the nation
More powerful and affluent today than ever, the United States has promising opportunities to influence the course of history. Yet these prospects are shadowed by significant perils and burdens. In this visionary book, leading scholars from the Brookings Institution and other prominent research organizations and universities analyze the major domestic and foreign policy problems facing the nation over the next five to ten years. The challenges on the domestic front are formidable: assuring fair but affordable access to health care, shoring up retirement income for an aging population, encouragi
eBook, English, ©2003
Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ©2003
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1 online resource (viii, 574 pages) : illustrations
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An agenda for the nation / Henry J. Aaron, James M. Lindsay, and Pietro S. Nivola
Sustaining U.S. economic growth / J. Bradford Delong, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz
American inequality and its consequences / Gary Burtless and Christopher Jencks
Budget blues : the fiscal outlook and options for reform / Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag, Samara R. Potter
Health and medical care / Victor R. Fuchs and Alan M. Garber
Private pensions : issues and options / William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Changing faces : immigrants and diversity in the twenty-first century / James M. Lindsay and Audrey Singer
Energy and environmental policy / Howard Gruenspecht and Paul P. Portney
Power and cooperation : an American foreign policy for the age of global politics / Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
A global economic agenda for the United States / Lael Brainard and Robert Litan
Military policy : getting the best bang for the bucks / Michael O'Hanlon
The new terrorism / Steven Simon
Rights, liberties, and security / Stuart Taylor
Can the government be serious? / Pietro S. Nivola
Reflections on the political context / James Q. Wilson
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