Thinking about America : [electronic resource] the United States in the 1990s / Annelise Anderson, Dennis L. Bark, editors.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / W. Glenn Campbell -- An introductory overview / Annelise Anderson and Dennis L. Bark -- A new America / Richard Nixon -- Deterrence? defense? disarmament? : the many roads toward stability / Edward Teller -- Strategic deterrence, defense, and arms control / William R. Van Cleave -- The Soviet Union : the crisis of the system and prospects for change / Henry S. Rowen and John B. Dunlop -- Difficulties in the West with the study of Russian history : a speech at the Hoover Institution in 1976 / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Mainland China's march toward a new socialism / Ramon H. Myers -- Looking at the Middle East / Philip C. Habib -- Strategic currents and patterns of conflict in the Middle East / Avigdor Haselkorn.

Latin America and the Caribbean : neighbors and friends? / Robert Wesson -- Europe : America's heritage? / Dennis L. Bark -- The Pacific Basin / Richard V. Allen -- Hope for Africa / Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann -- The Soviet Union abroad / Richard F. Staar -- National defense in the next decade / Caspar W. Weinberger -- The rise of market forces / Charles Wolf, Jr. -- Technological change under capitalism and socialism / Nathan Rosenberg -- Financing the East Boc / Roger W. Robinson, Jr. -- Trade, debt, and national security / Lawrence J. Brainard -- Foreign aid, protectionism, and national security / Melvyn Krauss -- Paradoxes in world agriculture / D. Gale Johnson -- Constitutional imperatives for the 1990s : the legal order for a free and productive economy / James M. Buchanan.

If you can't budget, how can you govern? / Aaron Wildavsky -- The federal deficit in the 1990s : a tale of two budgets / John F. Cogan -- Tax policy for the 1990s : tending to unfinished business / Charles E. McLure, Jr. -- An efficient, equitable tax for the 1990s / Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka -- The role of monetary policy under U.S. institutions / Thomas J. Sargent -- Regulation, reregulation, or deregulation : the issue for the 1990s / Thomas Gale Moore -- Aging : Social Security and Medicare / Rita Ricardo-Campbell -- Poverty : programs and policies / June O'Neill -- The labor market and international competitiveness / Edward P. Lazear -- Can education be reformed? / Gerald A. Dorfman and Paul R. Hanna -- Immigration policy / Annelise Anderson -- Vote for the other guy : the counterintuitive character of recent U.S. politics / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Thinking about cities in the 1990s / Andrew Young -- Criminal justice : a public policy imperative / Edwin Meese III -- A philosophical perspective / Sidney Hook -- The tide in the affairs of men / Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman -- Preferential policies : an international perspective / Thomas Sowell -- On public virtue / James Bond Stockdale -- Public policy and personal character / James Q. Wilson -- Central planning : the fatal conceit / F.A. Hayek -- The new capitalism / Martin Anderson -- National success and international stability in a time of change / George Shultz -- Intelligence in a democratic society / B.R. Inman -- Challenges to American policy / Gerald Ford -- Challenges old and new / Jimmy Carter -- The United States and the world in the 1990s / Ronald Reagan.