- Aleppo
- The Eighth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
- Edited by Joan Busquets
- In Aleppo: Rehabilitation of the Old City, Busquets describes the value of successful urban rehabilitation in this historic setting. The Syrian city of Aleppo won the prestigious Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design for its urban renewal efforts and Busquets offers an innovative take on how these rehabilitation projects are accomplished effectively.
- Paperback 2006
- 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
- At Women's Expense
- Cynthia Daniels
- No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights?
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Bending Science
- Thomas O. McGarity
- Wendy E. Wagner
- McGarity and Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards.Bending Science exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Business of Lobbying in China
- Scott Kennedy
- Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- But Is It True?
- Aaron Wildavsky
- We've eaten PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, and breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Amid this chaos of questions and conflicting information, Aaron Wildavsky arrives with just what the beleaguered citizen needs: a clear, fair, and factual look at how the rival claims of environmentalists and industrialists work, what they mean, and where to start sorting them out.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- China's Trapped Transition
- Minxin Pei
- In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy--pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China's Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China's future as a great power.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Chutes and Ladders
- Katherine S. Newman
- Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s. More than a story of the shifting fortunes of the labor market, Chutes and Ladders asks probing questions about the motivations of low-wage workers, the dreams they have, and their understanding of the rules of the game.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- City Economics
- Brendan O'Flaherty
- This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Classroom and the Chancellery
- Allen Sinel
- The efforts of Dmitry Tolstoi's ministry resulted in comprehensive reforms that shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century. Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program.
- Hardcover 1973
- Competition Policy for Small Market Economies
- Michal S. Gal
- Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more general policy prescriptions, such as goals and remedial tools. Competition policy in small economies is becoming increasingly important, since the number of small jurisdictions adopting such policy is rapidly growing. Gal's focus extends beyond domestic competition policy to the evaluation of the current trend toward the worldwide harmonization of policies.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Corporate State and the Broker State
- Robert F. Burk
- The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.
- Hardcover 1990
- Creating a National Home
- Patrick J. Kelly
- Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, disabled Civil War veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Drawing on political, cultural, welfare, and gender studies, Patrick Kelly illustrates that the creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.
- Hardcover 1997
- Democracy and Disagreement
- Amy Gutmann
- Dennis Thompson
- Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups to reason together.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Dewey Experiment in China
- Barry Keenan
- Hardcover 1977
- Dubious Conceptions
- Kristin Luker
- This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show us the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- From the Puritans to the Projects
- Lawrence J. Vale
- From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2007
- Global Health Challenges for Human Security
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Jennifer Leaning
- Edited by Vasant Narasimhan
- The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action.
- Paperback 2004
- Globalization and the Rural Environment
- Otto T. Solbrig, Editor
- Robert Paarlberg, Editor
- Francesco Di Castri, Editor
- Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
- Paperback 2001
- Governing the Global Economy
- Ethan Kapstein
- No area has become more global in its operations, more volatile, and thus more difficult to monitor and control than international banking. In this book, the international banker and political economist Ethan Kapstein explores the actions that governments have taken to cope with the economic and political consequences associated with the globalization of international finance.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Government by Contract
- Edited by Jody Freeman
- Edited by Martha Minow
- Hardcover 2009
- Group-Based Modeling of Development
- Daniel S. Nagin
- This book provides a systematic exposition of a group-based statistical method for analyzing longitudinal data in the social and behavioral sciences and in medicine. The methods can be applied to a wide range of data, such as that describing the progression of delinquency and criminality over the life course, changes in income over time, the course of a disease or physiological condition, or the evolution of the socioeconomic status of communities.
- Hardcover 2005
- Health and Social Change in International Perspective
- Lincoln C. Chen, Editor
- Arthur Kleinman, Editor
- Norma Ware, Editor
- Paperback
- Housing in the Twenty-First Century
- Kent W. Colton
- The Housing Act of 1949 called for a "decent home and suitable living environment" for every American. The progress toward this goal over the last fifty years is generally a story of success. Kent Colton documents the remarkable progress in the areas of housing production, homeownership, and rental housing, the transformation of the nation's housing finance system, the role of government, and the place of housing in the economy. He also looks to the future using case studies developed during his fifteen-year tenure as head of the National Association of Home Builders.
- Hardcover 2003
- Human Insecurity in a Global World
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
- Edited by Ellen Seidensticker
- This volume explores the complex challenges that globalization poses for human security. Many of the challenges described are already high on the agenda of the international community. By adding a human security dimension to their analysis, these authors provide new insight into attempts to reduce our vulnerability to the new forces unleashed by global changes.
- Paperback 2004
- Human Rights in Korea
- William Shaw, Editor
- Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history, treating the successive phases of Korea's modern century to examine the uneasy fate of human rights and some of the ideas of human rights as they have developed in the Korean context. Beginning with the Independence Club of the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the constitutional and judicial structures underlying the Sixth Republic Government, these papers illuminate the sometimes complex interactions between modern Korean human-rights issues and the legacies of Korean culture and colonial occupation.
- Hardcover 1991
- In the Hurricane's Eye
- Raymond Vernon
- The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries.The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Inside Charter Schools
- Bruce Fuller, Editor
- Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- The Irony of Free Speech
- Owen Fiss
- How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests in this incisive book, is where the First Amendment comes in. He reframes the debate by showing how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Just Work
- Russell Muirhead
- This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007
- Land Taxation in Imperial China, 1750-1911
- Yeh-Chien Wang
- Hardcover 1974
- Losing Time
- Otis Graham
- What should the United States have done when the nation saw its industries rapidly becoming globally uncompetitive? What reforms do we need now? Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the United States with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by both labor and management.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- Making Whole What Has Been Smashed
- John Torpey
- This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994
- Paul Hohenberg
- Lynn Lees
- By tracing the large-scale processes of social, economic, and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, Hohenberg and Lees present an original synthesis of European urbanization within a global context. They bring this edition up to date with a new chapter entitled "Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century."
- Paperback 1995
- The Making of the Monroe Doctrine
- Ernest R. May
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback 1992
- The Making of the New Deal
- Katie Louchheim, Editor
- Frank Freidel
- With historical notes by Jonathan Dembo
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback
- Managed Care and Monopoly Power
- Deborah Haas-Wilson
- As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase in health care costs is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.
- Hardcover 2003
- Modernizing the Provincial City
- Rosemary Wakeman
- Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in the rest of Europe. In this book, Rosemary Wakeman examines the postwar transformation of Toulouse and shows how urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programs designed to build "the new France."
- Hardcover 1998
- On Nuclear Terrorism
- Michael Levi
- Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear plot. Surveying the broad universe of plots and defenses, this accessible account shows how a wide-ranging defense that integrates the tools of weapon and materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border controls, diplomacy, and the military can multiply, intensify, and compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail.
- Hardcover 2007
- Paris Sewers and Sewermen
- Donald Reid
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America
- Edited by Cynthia Sanborn
- Edited by Felipe Portocarrero
- Foreword by John H. Coatsworth
- Latin America is a profoundly philanthropic region with deeply rooted traditions of solidarity with the less fortunate. This volume brings together groundbreaking perspectives on such diverse themes as corporate philanthropy, immigrant networks, and new grant-making and operating foundations with corporate, family, and community origins.
- Paperback 2006
- Policymaking in Latin America
- Edited by Ernesto Stein
- Edited by Mariano Tommasi
- Edited by Carlos Scartascini
- Edited by Pablo Spiller
- What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve, and implement effective public policies? To address this issue, this book builds on the results of a comparative study of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The volume benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of the process in the region.
- Paperback 2008
- A Political Explanation of Economic Growth
- Yongping Wu
- Unlike South Korea and Japan, where large firms have been the major exporters, before the late 1980s Taiwan's successful exporters were overwhelmingly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). What factors account for the success of the SMEs and their benign neglect by the state? The author argues that it was an unintended consequence of the state's policy toward the private sector and its political strategies for managing societal forces.
- Hardcover 2005
- Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea
- James B. Palais
- Palais theorizes in his important book on Korea that the remarkable longevity of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910) was related to the difficulties the country experienced in adapting to the modern world. He suggests that the aristocratic and hierarchical social system, which was the source of stability of the dynasty, was also the cause of its weakness.
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback 1991
- The Politics of Policies
- Inter-Amer Dev Bank
- This study analyzes how the workings of the policymaking process affect the quality of policy outcomes. It looks beyond a purely technocratic approach, arguing that the political and policymaking processes are inseparable. It offers a wide variety of examples and case studies, and yields useful insights for the design of effective policy reform.
- Paperback 2006
- Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing
- Lorraine M. McDonnell
- Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act, with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing. To read this book is to witness the unfolding drama of America's educational culture wars, and to see hope for their resolution.
- Hardcover 2004
- Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes
- Frederick Schauer
- When the law makes decisions about groups based on averages, the public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand, profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. How can we decide which stereotypes are accurate, which are distortions, which can be applied fairly, and which will result in unfair stigmatization? These decisions must rely not only on statistical and empirical accuracy, but also on morality. As Schauer argues, there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
- Michael R. Reich, Editor
- Paperback 2002
- RKFDV
- Robert L. Koehl
- Hardcover 1957
- Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution
- John E. Roemer
- Woojin Lee
- Karine Van der Straeten
- From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Combining historical analysis and empirical rigor with major theoretical advances, the authors of this book construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution.
- Hardcover 2007
- Reconstructing Public Reason
- Eric A. MacGilvray
- Can a liberal polity act on pressing matters of public concern in a way that respects the variety of beliefs and commitments that its citizens hold? Recent efforts to answer this question typically begin by seeking an uncontroversial starting point from which legitimate public ends can be said to follow. MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial public ends in the present and toward the problem of evaluating potentially controversial public ends through collective inquiry over time.
- Hardcover 2004
- Regulating a New Economy
- Morton Keller
- Morton Keller, a leading scholar of twentieth-century American history, describes the complex interplay between rapid economic change and regulatory policy. In its portrait of the response of American politics and law to a changing economy, this book provides a fresh understanding of emerging public policy for a modern nation.
- Hardcover
- Regulating a New Society
- Morton Keller
- A leading scholar of twentieth-century American history looks again at the beginning of the century, this time giving us a remarkable portrait of the emergence of modern society and its distinctive transformations and social problems. Keller integrates political, legal, and governmental history, now providing the first comprehensive study of the ideas and interests that shaped early twentieth-century American social policy.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Representative Democracy
- Ballard C. Campbell
- The period Campbell examines was one of rapid change and great challenge; urbanization, industrialization, and increasing national integration forced innumerable difficult and important decisions on state legislators. Campbell is sensitive to these stresses on law-making, and skillfully analyzes the interplay between personal and constituent factors that affected lawmakers.
- Hardcover 1980
- Rethinking Multiculturalism
- Bhikhu Parekh
- Bhikhu Parekh argues for a pluralist perspective on cultural diversity. Writing from both within the liberal tradition and outside of it as a critic, he challenges what he calls the "moral monism" of much of traditional moral philosophy, including contemporary liberalism--its tendency to assert that only one way of life or set of values is worthwhile and to dismiss the rest as misguided or false. He defends his pluralist perspective both at the level of theory and in subtle nuanced analyses of recent controversies.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Sandbox Investment
- David L. Kirp
- The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poorer kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the authority of a scholar, Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement and campaign.
- Hardcover 2007
- Sharing America's Neighborhoods
- Ingrid Gould Ellen
- The first part of this book presents a fresh and encouraging report on the state of racial integration in America's neighborhoods. It shows that while the majority are indeed racially segregated, a substantial and growing number are integrated, and remain so for years. Still, many integrated neighborhoods do unravel quickly, and the second part of the book explores the root causes.
- Hardcover 2001
- Shogunal Politics
- Kate Wildman Nakai
- Hakuseki, advisor to the sixth and seventh Tokugawa shogun, played an important role in politics between 1709 and 1716. He participated in major policy decisions on currency, foreign trade, and local administration, while simultaneously trying to enhance the shogun's authority both within the bakufu and as a national ruler. Nakai portrays a multi-faceted personality who managed to blend practical politics and Confucian idealism within the complicated and dynamic environment of the early-eighteenth-century bakufu.
- Hardcover 1988
- Simple Rules for a Complex World
- Richard Epstein
- Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust government at all levels, Richard Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998
- The Smoking Puzzle
- Frank A. Sloan
- V. Kerry Smith
- Donald H. Taylor
- How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.
- Hardcover 2003
- Social Reformers in Urban China
- Shirley S. Garrett
- In this volume Garrett presents the impressive early history of the Y.M.C.A. in China, an organization which, during the first quarter of the twentieth century, became that country's most prominent private agency of social planning. The author interviewed many ex-Y.M.C.A. China hands and combed a variety of archives to complete this inside account of the missionary origins of, and Chinese participation and leadership in, the Chinese Y.M.C.A.
- Hardcover 1970
- Socializing Security
- David A. Moss
- Socializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the United States. The author focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first decades of the twentieth century and founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL).
- Hardcover 1995
- The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed
- Linda Cook
- Hardcover
- Standards Deviation
- James P. Spillane
- After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for those entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- The State after Statism
- Edited by Jonah Levy
- This book assesses the changing nature of state intervention in the economies of the affluent democracies. Against a widespread understanding that contemporary developments, such as globalization and new technologies, are pressing for a rollback of state regulation in the economy, the book shows that these same forces are also creating new demands and opportunities for state intervention. Thus, state activism has shifted, rather than simply eroded.
- Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006
- The State of the Nation
- Derek Bok
- This book is an eloquent assessment of where America stands, how its society has changed in the past half-century, and who or what is responsible for our current frustrations. Derek Bok examines America's progress in five areas: economic prosperity, quality of life, opportunity, personal security, and societal values.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Taking Faith Seriously
- Edited by Mary Jo Bane
- Edited by Brent Coffin
- Edited by Richard Higgins
- Whether simply uneasy or downright hostile, the relation between religion and liberal democracy in this country has long been vexed and complex--and crucial to what America is and aspires to be. Amid increasingly contentious exchanges over fundamentalism, abortion rights, secularism, and pluralism, this book reminds us of the critical role that religion plays in the health and well-being of a democracy.
- Hardcover 2005
- Taxation and Economic Development in Taiwan
- Glenn P. Jenkins
- Chun-Yan Kuo
- Keh-Nan Sun
- Documenting the evolution of economic development and fiscal policies in Taiwan over the last four decades, this work explores the effectiveness of specific tax and trade policies. The authors make a major revision to the previously accepted role played by the export processing zones and the protection of domestic producers from foreign competition.
- Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003
- Total Cure
- Harold S. Luft
- Hardcover 2008
- Trust in Troubled Times
- Brett Sheehan
- This timely book traces the development of banking and paper money in republican Tianjin in order to explore the creation of social trust in financial institutions. Framing the study around Bian Baimei, a conscientious branch manager of the Bank of China, Brett Sheehan analyzes the actions of bankers, officials, and local elites as they tried to overcome political and financial crises and instill trust in the banking system. Trust in Troubled Times is a valuable new perspective on the economic, social, and political history of modern China.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Tyranny of the Market
- Joel Waldfogel
- Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.
- Hardcover 2007
- Unfiltered
- Eric Feldman
- Ronald Bayer
- Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this book--Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States--restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state's public health power.
- Hardcover 2004
- Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860
- Allan R. Pred
- Hardcover 1980
- Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
- Paul Boyer
- Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. By the 1890s there had developed two sharply divergent trends in thinking about urban planning and social control: the bleak assessment that led to coercive strategies and the hopeful evaluation that emphasized the importance of environmental betterment as a means of urban moral control.
- Paperback 1992
- The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
- Richardson Dilworth
- Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities.
- Hardcover 2005
- Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
- Brian Ladd
- Ladd describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. He sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment. In so doing, he reveals the extent to which modern city planning is a product of the aspirations, prejudices, and frustrations of the German burghers who created it.
- Hardcover 1990
- Welfare Reform
- Jeffrey Grogger
- Lynn A. Karoly
- In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
- Hardcover 2005
- What Children Need
- Jane Waldfogel
- Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, economist Jane Waldfogel guides readers through a maze of social science research evidence to offer comprehensive answers and a vision for change. Drawing on the evidence, Waldfogel proposes a bold new plan to better meet the needs of children in working families, from birth through adolescence, while respecting the core values of choice, quality, and work.
- Hardcover 2006
- What Money Can't Buy
- Susan E. Mayer
- Children from poor families generally do much worse than children from affluent families. In an ingenious exploration of why this is so, Susan Mayer asks whether income directly affects children's life chances, as many experts believe, or if the factors that cause parents to have low incomes also impede their children's life chances. Mayer finds that regardless of the research technique, the effect of income on children's lives is smaller than many experts have thought.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails
- Amihai Glazer
- Lawrence S. Rothenberg
- This book discusses how the ability of the U.S. government to implement policies is strongly affected by economic constraints, such as the credibility of the policies, the ability of government to commit to them, the extent to which firms and consumers rationally anticipate their effects, and whether the success of a policy further encourages firms and individuals to behave in intended ways.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2005
- Why Race Matters in South Africa
- Michael MacDonald
- This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
- Hardcover 2006
- Worst-Case Scenarios
- Cass R. Sunstein
- Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
- Hardcover 2007