AIDS is only one of many conditions that new diagnostics tests predict. But what is the purpose of insurance if people who might get sick are judged unacceptable risks?
Features
Posted inEconomic Policy
Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada
How Canada manages to build scandal-free nonprofit housing
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Real Welfare Problem
A new study documents that in major cities, a welfare check barely pays rent and utilities.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Atlas Unburdened: America’s Economic Interests in a New World Era
In 1944 Western statesmen redesigned the global economic order. The end of the Cold War and the new economic realities of the 1990s call for an equally far-sighted reconstruction and clear grasp of America’s interests.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Liberal Opportunity
The startling collapse of communism, not with a bang (except in Romania) but a whimper, presents the democratic world with a new array of challenges. For the United States, an age of military competition with the Soviet Union is coming to an end. In its place looms a new age of economic competition. The chief […]
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Escaping the Fiscal Trap
As the 1990s begin, peace and prosperity are in abundance but so are poverty, drugs, poor schools, contaminated air and water, deteriorating roads, and a host of other problems. Although few believe that such problems can be solved with money alone, money is surely needed. Its lack has become an excuse for doing nothing or […]
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An Outward-Looking Economic Nationalism
Yes to open trade; no to laissez-faire domestic policies.
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A World Unlocked
“We make our vision, and hold it ready for any amendment that experience suggests. It is not a fixed picture, a row of shiny ideals which we can exhibit to mankind and say: Achieve these or be damned. All we can do is to search the world as we find it, extricate the forces that […]