Agenda for the nation

Foreword / Strobe Talbott

1. An agenda for the nation / Henry J. Aaron, James M. Lindsay, and Pietro S. Nivola

2. Sustaining U.S. economic growth / J. Bradford DeLong, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz

3. American inequality and its consequences / Gary Bustless and Christopher Jencks

4. Budget blues : the fiscal outlook and options for reform / Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag, and Samara R. Potter

5. Health and medical care / Victor R. Fuchs and Alan M. Garber

6. Private pensions : issues and options / William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag

7. Changing faces : immigrants and diversity in the twenty-first century / James M. Lindsay and Audrey Singer

8. Energy and environmental policy / Howard Gruenspecht and Paul P. Portney

9. Power and cooperation : an American foreign policy for the age of global politics / Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay

10. A global economic agenda for the United States / Lael Brainard and Robert Litan

11. Military policy : getting the best bang for the bucks / Michael O'Hanlon

12. The new terrorism / Steven Simon

13. Rights, liberties, and security / Stuart Taylor

14. Can the government be serious? / Pietro S. Nivola

15. Reflections on the political context / James Q. Wilson

Contributors

Index.