Setting National Priorities Policy for the Nineties

SETTING NATIONAL PRIORITIES continues the highly acclaimed & influential series of books that examine domestic & foreign policy choices confronting the United States. Members of the Brookings staff join outside experts to evaluate America's course through the next decade. Will Americans choose excellence or mediocrity? In this volume, Charles L. Schultze shows why it is important to solve the problem of the federal budget deficit & how it can be done; John D. Steinbruner addresses the revolution taking place in American foreign policy & explains how the United States can be more secure with lower defense spending; Lawrence J. Korb evaluates President Bush's defense budget & suggests possible improvements; Robert Z. Lawrence describes how the U.S. government & private industry should respond to the competitive challenge from foreign companies; William D. Nordhaus explains the risks from global warming & presents a policy to meet them; John E. Chubb & Eric A. Hanushek chart new directions for American elementary & secondary education; Henry J. Aaron identifies the major problems with the financing of health care & describes how they can be solved; Thomas E. Mann considers how political institutions & public preferences constrain our ability to enact needed policy changes & what might be done to overcome those obstacles.Aaron, Henry J. is the author of 'Setting National Priorities Policy for the Nineties' with ISBN 9780815700470 and ISBN 0815700474.