Blueprint For America

"Blueprint for America" is a collection of essays, organized, edited together with inspired past times George P. Shultz. You tin teach an overview together with chapter past times chapter pdfs here. The hardcover volition hold upwardly available from Amazon or Hoover Press Oct 1.

Some of the inspiration for this projection came from the remarkable 1980 memo (here) to President-elect Ronald Reagan from his Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy.

Like that memo, this is a mass virtually governance, non politics.  It's non partisan -- copies are beingness sent to both campaigns. It's non virtually choosing or spinning policies to attract voters or win elections.

The mass is virtually long-term policies together with policy frameworks -- how policy is made, provide to dominion of law, is equally of import equally what the policy is --  that tin cook America's problems. It focuses on what nosotros mean value are the of import issues equally good equally policies to address those issues -- it does non address every passion of the latest two-week word cycle.

The mass comprises the answers nosotros would give to an incoming Administration of whatsoever party, or incoming Congress, if they asked us for a policy parcel that is best for the long-term welfare of the country.

The chapters, to whet your appetite:

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: The Domestic Landscape past times Michael J. Boskin
IN BRIEF: Spending past times George P. Shultz
CHAPTER 2: Entitlements together with the Budget past times John F. Cogan
CHAPTER 3: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Blueprint for Tax Reform past times Michael J. Boskin
CHAPTER 4: Transformational Health Care Reform past times Scott W. Atlas
CHAPTER 5: Reforming Regulation past times Michael J. Boskin
CHAPTER 6: National together with International Monetary Reform past times John B. Taylor
CHAPTER 7: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Blueprint for Effective Financial Reform past times John H. Cochrane
IN BRIEF: National Human Resources past times George P. Shultz
CHAPTER 8: Education together with the Nation’s Future past times Eric A. Hanushek
CHAPTER 9: Trade together with Immigration past times John H. Cochrane
IN BRIEF: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 World Awash inward Change
CHAPTER 10: Restoring Our National Security past times James O. Ellis Jr., James N. Mattis, together with Kori Schake
CHAPTER 11: Redefining Energy Security past times James O. Ellis Jr.
CHAPTER 12: Diplomacy inward a Time of Transition past times James E. Goodby
CLOSING NOTE: The Art together with Practice of Governance past times George P. Shultz

My chapter on a Equity Financed banking which I posted here. (The verbalise was based on the paper. Now yous accept the paper.)

My chapter on Trade together with Immigration is new, together with an uncompromising red-meat free-market view. I don't mean value 1 should compromise centuries onetime economical agreement only because it's non politically pop at the moment.
 
If yous got this far, yous mightiness likewise hold upwardly interested inward my Economic Growth essay written for a parallel but similar project.

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