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Hoover Digest 2009 No. 4
2009 No.4
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Dr. Friedman’s Remedy
Milton Friedman diagnosed the problems of America’s health care system years ago. The good doctor also foretold that a genuine cure would come only in small doses. By Peter Robinson.

Back to the Future on Markets
There are actually some policy changes that will work and won’t cost a fortune. By Terry L. Anderson and Richard Sousa.

The Housing Boom and Bust
Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell contemplates the greatest expansion of government power in a generation.

 

On the cover
A Soviet poster from 1931 presents a busy harvest scene. Elsewhere on the image (not shown) are spiteful counterrevolutionaries and foreign invaders, who watch the workers enviously. “Bread is our strength,” reads the poster. “A grave for invaders. Gather the harvest.” Some of the sheaves transform into weapons that wound a rich peasant, a priest, a capitalist, and a czarist. Soviet leader Josef Stalin, like the artist who created this poster, was intimately acquainted with using food as a weapon: at the time this exhortation was printed, collectivization was causing widespread famine and would kill millions of people.

 

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1. How to Cure Health Care
The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it.

2. The Case for Free Trade
In international trade, Hoover fellow Charles Wolf Jr. argues above, deficits don't much matter. Here Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman discuss what does: freedom. A ringing statement of logic and principle.

3. Here’s a Second Opinion
Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.

4. The Changing American Family
During the past 20 years, the American family has undergone a profound transformation. By Herbert S. Klein.

5. The Decline and Fall of American Education
American education is in serious trouble. Why aren’t we more concerned? By Paul E. Peterson.

6. Strategies of Containment, Past and Future
Our policy of containment helped win the Cold War. Does the policy have any relevance today? By Hoover fellow John Lewis Gaddis.

7. Racial Quotas in College Admissions: A Critique of the Bowen and Bok Study
In a new statistical analysis, two former Ivy League presidents argue that racial preferences in college admissions are good for both minorities and society at large. Examining the analysis, however, Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell has discovered that the numbers don’t add up.

8. Homework Pays Off
Hoover fellows Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa on the correlation between homework and academic performance.

9. The Loneliness of the “Black Conservative”
Hoover fellow Shelby Steele on the price of his convictions.

10. A Brief History of Testing and Accountability
How to improve our public schools? Many policymakers argue that we can start by holding students, teachers, schools, and school districts accountable for student performance. This approach may sound perfectly reasonable—but it has the education profession up in arms. By Hoover fellow Diane Ravitch.

 


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