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 (PRTF-00-toc.pdf ~47 KB)
• Introduction (PRTF-00-introduction.pdf ~28 KB)
• Chapter 1: Wrong Incentives from Financial System Fixes (PRTF-01-haber-kieff.pdf ~66 KB)
• Chapter 2: Prudential Bank Regulation: What's Broke and How to Fix It (PRTF-02-calomiris.pdf ~75 KB)
• Chapter 3: A Not‐So‐New Direction for Tax Policy (PRTF-03-hassett.pdf ~164 KB)
• Chapter 4: How Not to Invent a Patent Crisis (PRTF-04-kieff-smith.pdf ~87 KB)
• Chapter 5: At What Price, Green? (PRTF-05-anderson-libecap.pdf ~76 KB)
• Chapter 6: What’s Wrong with the Employee Free Choice Act? (PRTF-06-epstein.pdf ~78 KB)
• Chapter 7: Health Care One More Time (PRTF-07-epstein.pdf ~75 KB)
• Chapter 8: A Mad Scramble for Infrastructure Dollars (PRTF-08-huffman.pdf ~72 KB)
• Chapter 9: Defending an Open World Economy (PRTF-09-bhagwati.pdf ~62 KB)
• Contributors (PRTF-10-contributors.pdf ~38 KB)
• Index (PRTF-11-index.pdf ~44 KB)