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John McDonald Hood

Adjunct Instructor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy

Selected Publications


Catalyst: Jim Martin and the Rise of North Carolina Republicans

Book · October 6, 2015 Catalyst chronicles the life and political career of Martin, North Carolina’s first two-term Republican governor. ... Cite

A Time for Governing Policy Solutions from the Pages of National Affairs

Book · May 8, 2012 This book is a collection of some of the most timely and concrete policy proposals published in the journal’s pages, offering ideas for reforming our welfare state, our tax system, financial regulation, monetary policy, education, state ... ... Cite

Our Best Foot Forward: An Investment Plan for North Carolina’s Economic Recovery

Book · 2012 Why is the state’s economy so weak What can North Carolina’s leaders do about it? These are among the questions that Hood answers in Our Best Foot Forward. He also investigates how the state’s education system matches up, whether North Carolina’s tax code ... Link to item Cite

Clear Creek and Rocky River: A Carolina Family HIstory

Book · 2012 Tracking the settlement of North Carolina by English, Scotch-Irish, German, and other immigrant groups during the 18th century, this book explores the rich history of the Simpsons, Lemmonds, Alexanders, Means, Hinsons, Biggers, Sehorns, Frieselands, and re ... Link to item Cite

A healthier economy for North Carolina

Journal Article North Carolina Medical Journal · 2012 There is solid empirical evidence for a positive relationship between economic development and health outcomes. A successful strategy for promoting economic growth in North Carolina would include reforms of the state’s education, infrastructure, tax, an ... Link to item Cite

To Know Such Liberty An American Family History

Book · November 1, 2011 A history of 17th century England and the first three centuries of America, as told through the stories of the Hoods, Bristols, Suddreths, Kincaids, Whites, Moodys, Maltbas, Coffeys, and related families of western North Carolina. ... Cite

Get health reform right, not quick.

Journal Article North Carolina Medical Journal · 2009 Link to item Cite

Battleground: Business [2 volumes]

Book · October 30, 2007 Overall, companies are in business to make money. Business schools drill into their students that the primary goal of business is to maximize shareholder wealth . Investors demand financial results. Most companies reward employees for ... ... Cite

Selling the Dream Why Advertising is Good Business

Book · January 1, 2005 It is to the debate over the economics of advertising and marketing instigated in large part by Galbraith and his critics that our attention must now turn. CHAPTER 4 The New Economics and Science of Advertising "Learn. 90 Selling the Dream. ... Cite

Investor Politics The New Force that Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-first Century

Book · 2001 This book represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. ... Cite

Liberalism in the Major Media

Journal Article Nexus · 1998 Is the media fair? To many observers, the answer to this question is obvious. Media critics, many of them conservatives or Republicans, would say that the media's leftward bias in news and entertainment is unquestionable. Media defenders, both practitioner ... Link to item Cite

The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good

Book · June 12, 1996 Profit-seeking and corporate responsibility are not fundamentally at odds, argues Hood. In fact, they are intimately linked. Businesses motivated by economic self-interest have powerful incentives to promote the common good. Technological advancements in t ... Link to item Cite

The new austerity: University budgets in the 1990s

Journal Article Academic Questions · June 1996 Full text Cite