How China Can Take Taiwan Without a War
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In 2023, AEI created the Coalition Defense of Taiwan project to develop strategies to deter and defeat aggression from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This week, project leaders Dan Blumenthal and Frederick W. Kagan (and their coauthors) released their latest report, which uses open-source intelligence to comprehensively analyze the PRC’s coercive strategies—and what the West needs to do to stop them.
Roger Pielke Jr., an expert on climate policy, joined AEI this year as part of our new Center on Technology, Science, and Energy. In his latest article, Pielke documents the antihuman hysteria about overpopulation that is disturbingly common in the environmental movement and among climate change alarmists.
A new study from Edward L. Glaeser, who revitalized the study of urban economics, reveals the enduring value of population concentrations. He and his coauthors explain how cities in Brazil facilitate upward mobility by bringing skilled and unskilled workers together.
In recent years, the number of children in foster care has declined nearly 16 percent, while the fatality rate from abuse and neglect rose by almost 18 percent. AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley, an expert on child welfare and foster care issues, argues that state and federal governments need to re-prioritize the safety of children from families mired in violence, addiction, or mental illness.
On May 14, over 100 higher education leaders gathered at AEI for a conference on the future of the American university. Organized by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, the participants discussed the revival of civic education at colleges across the country.
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Critics on both the left and right increasingly accuse American capitalism of failing to deliver broad-based prosperity. But is there any empirical basis for this criticism? In a new AEI report, Scott Winship investigates trends in worker pay over the past 50 years. By marshaling evidence and identifying flaws in critical studies, Winship demonstrates that aggregate worker pay has closely tracked increases in productivity and that these pay gains hold true for middle-class and lower-earning workers. These gains have been significant for women and more modest for men, largely as the US economy has transitioned from a goods production–based economy to a service economy. Rather than accepting the premise that the American economy is broken, policymakers should look at ways to increase growth and productivity as the best means to delivering gains for middle-class and working-class Americans.
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5moEXCERPT: “Rather than accepting the premise that the American economy is broken, policymakers should look at ways to increase growth and productivity as the best means to delivering gains for middle-class and working-class Americans.” RESPONSE: So it sounds like we are back to the Beatles in the 1960s where “all we need is [growth and productivity”]? Picketty destroyed that myth in his book “ Capital in the 21st Century” about 10 years ago with his equation r>g. What we really need are problem solving businesses to tackle 21st century problems. That would be meaningful progress. Fifty years of believing in the economic simplism of “externalities” ( ie. not my problem) will take us just as long to fix that bogus construct. At the very least we need to get beyond sheer economic growth and productivity as the solution. It was always wrong. Let’s move forward with a 21st century model.