Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Inside Out India and China
Local Politics Go Global
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing. Increasingly, these two countries are being led not from the top down, but rather from the Inside Out.
In 2014, India overwhelmingly elected Narendra Modi minister, a man who rose to national prominence as chief minister...
State and Local Pensions
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue. Elected officials, academic experts, and the media alike have pointed to funding shortfalls with alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable...
Zhu Rongji on the Record
The Road to Reform: 1998-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji. As China's premier from 1998 to 2003, Zhu displayed a pragmatism and strong work ethic that have been key forces in China's drive to greater...
Cuba's Energy Future
Strategic Approaches to Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Approaching an uncertain future without Fidel Castro, and still reeling from a downturn at the end of the cold war, Cuba must act decisively to improve its economy and living conditions. One of the major challenges facing the impoverished island nation is securing access to energy resources that are...
Latin America and the Asian Giants
Evolving Ties with China and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics.
In the years since China has adopted a "going global" strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to natural resources...
by Elizabeth Kneebone, Alan Berube
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty "in place" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and...
Does Character Matter?
Essays on Opportunity and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Richard Reeves introduces this collection of short essays with a challenge: I defy you to find a richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical, and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in particular its relationship to questions of opportunity.” The evidence? The works...
Open Budgets
The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands-from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic...
The Global Debt Crisis
Haunting U.S. and European Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States. Old confrontations over fiscal responsibility are being renewed, often in a more virulent form, in places as far flung as Detroit, Michigan, and Valencia, Spain,...
To the Edge
Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Were the radical steps taken by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to avert the financial crisis legal? When and why did political elites and the general public question the legitimacy of the government's responses to the crisis?
In To The Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses...
Arming without Aiming
India's Military Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
India's growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. Its border with Pakistan is a tinderbox, the subcontinent remains vulnerable to religious extremism, and...
The Risk Pivot
Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy. First, we saw explosive growth in demand from Asia's rising powers, which fueled fears about scarcity and conflict. But we've also seen an American revolution in technology and markets, resulting in a dramatic increase in sup-ply. This is strengthening...
by Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings....
Global Civics
Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The simple yet challenging goal of this book is to deliberate the legitimacy, and advance the feasibility, of an important new concept-the notion of "global civics." We cannot achieve the international cooperation that is needed for a globalizing and interdependent century without embracing...