- America Unequal
- Sheldon H. Danziger
- Peter Gottschalk
- There is nothing about a market economy, Danziger and Gottschalk argue, that ensures that a rising standard of living will reduce inequality. They challenge the view, emphasized in the Republicans' "Contract with America," that restraining government social spending and cutting welfare should be our top domestic priorities. Instead, they propose a set of policies that would reduce poverty by supplementing the earnings of low-wage workers and increasing the employment prospects of the jobless.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- An Introduction to Sustainable Development
- Peter Rogers
- Kazi F. Jalal
- John A. Boyd
- An Introduction to Sustainable Development presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This textbook examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development by focusing on changing patterns of consumption, production, and distribution of resources.
- Paperback 2006
- Dictatorship and Demand
- Mark Landsman
- An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.
- Hardcover 2005
- Economic Sentiments
- Emma Rothschild
- In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important consequences for our own.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- The End of Southern Exceptionalism
- Byron E. Shafer
- Richard Johnston
- Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Failure of Political Islam
- Olivier Roy
- Carol Volk, Translator
- Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's striking formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success. Richly informed, powerfully argued, and clearly written, this is a book that no one trying to understand Islam can afford to overlook.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931
- Edward W. Bennett
- Hardcover
- The Making of the New Deal
- Katie Louchheim, Editor
- Frank Freidel
- With historical notes by Jonathan Dembo
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback
- The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
- Glenn Firebaugh
- Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations).
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- New Patterns for Mexico
- Edited by Barbara J. Merz
- New Patterns for Mexico examines novel and emerging patterns of United States giving to Mexico and its impact on equitable development. Last year alone, Mexican migrants living in the United States sent billions of dollars back to relatives living in Mexico. This bilingual volume asks: What are these new patterns of diaspora giving and how do they affect equitable development in Mexico? This book builds upon the earlier work of Diaspora Philanthropy: Perspectives on India and China.
- Paperback 2006
- The Warping of Government Work
- John D. Donahue
- The divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The Warping of Government Work documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.
- Hardcover 2008