Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford
By Terry Anderson, Jagdish Bhagwati, Charles Calomiris, Richard A. Epstein, Stephen Haber, Kevin Hassett, James Huffman, F. Scott Kieff, Gary D. Libecap and Henry E. Smith

This book was added to the web site on April 27, 2009.

In this nine-chapter volume, the authors examine the challenges the Obama administration faces today, and in the foreseeable future, and the administration’s planned responses.

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• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Wrong Incentives from Financial System Fixes
• Chapter 2: Prudential Bank Regulation: What's Broke and How to Fix It
• Chapter 3: A Not‐So‐New Direction for Tax Policy
• Chapter 4: How Not to Invent a Patent Crisis
• Chapter 5: At What Price, Green?
• Chapter 6: What’s Wrong with the Employee Free Choice Act?
• Chapter 7: Health Care One More Time
• Chapter 8: A Mad Scramble for Infrastructure Dollars
• Chapter 9: Defending an Open World Economy
• Contributors
• Index