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by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states...
Economic Lives
How Culture Shapes the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development...
Cultivating Conscience
How Good Laws Make Good People
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless...
by Viviana A. Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy,...
Human Capitalism
How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and...
by Mukesh Eswaran
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Gender matters in economics—for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics,...
What Price the Moral High Ground?
How to Succeed without Selling Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Financial disasters--and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them--seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid?
In...
Money Talks
Explaining How Money Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected...
Competition in the Promised Land
Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space...
The Litigation State
Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while 97 percent were litigated by private parties. When and why did private plaintiff-driven litigation become a dominant model for enforcing federal regulation? The Litigation...
Unfree Speech
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated. In Unfree Speech, he presents...
The Development Dilemma
Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's past
Today’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world....
by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs?
This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors...