economic aspects

Charles Murray proposes a radical new plan that ends Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare, and instead gives every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life, and argues that this program could achieve the same goals of the welfare state with less financial impact and greater success.

Analyzes the individual costs of the war on terror for Americans both in taxes and in lifestyles and examines how decreased taxes and increased deficit spending has effected military operations and national security.

Explores the varying viewpoints about college sports programs.

Discusses the promise of hydrogen fuel cells as a solution to energy and environmental problems, looks at key issues involved in making the transition to a hydrogen economy, and concludes that energy policies in the early twenty-first century do not support the rapid transition that is needed to halt climate change.

Explains how economic activities have lead to large-scale damage to the global environment and argues that environmental problems cannot be stopped until businesses start claiming responsibility for their actions.

Identifies the problems related to globalization and puts forward practical proposals to make the existing international financial and trade systems work better.

Explores the impact of big-time intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate education, explaining how many schools, because of their emphasis on research and graduate programs, no longer give the majority of their undergraduates a meaningful education.

Explains how globalization is shaping world affairs and discusses how it replaced the Cold War system, how it is creating a single global market, how it is influencing domestic policies, and other related topics.

An investigation of college sports, concentrating on the football and basketball programs of the top one hundred or so schools in Division I, focusing on the impact of commercialization on both the sports and the educational standards of the institutions.

Discusses the role of Swiss banks in the financing of German efforts during World War II, arguing that Swiss banks laundered money taken from Holocaust victims and provided loans and ammunition to German forces.