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Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
State of the Union
A Century of American Labor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead...
Overreach
Leadership in the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy...
Viewpoints
Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
An undergraduate textbook devoted exclusively to relationships between mathematics and art, Viewpoints is ideally suited for math-for-liberal-arts courses and mathematics courses for fine arts majors. The textbook contains a wide variety of classroom-tested activities and problems, a series of essays...
In the Blood
Understanding America's Farm Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and...
by Elizabeth Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected...
Poverty Knowledge
Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge...
The Failed Welfare Revolution
America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's...
Cultures Merging
A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes...
by Mathias Risse
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among...
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Groundwork for a New Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of...
by Peter Temin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were...
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at...
by Thomas J. Sargent, François R. Velde
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading economists, Thomas Sargent and François Velde, examine the evolution of Western European economies through...