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by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach....
by Derek S. Hyra
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout...
Side Effects and Complications
The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it’s a conclusion directly borne out by economic forecasts. In Side Effects and Complications, preeminent labor economist Casey B. Mulligan brings to light the dire economic...
by Ralph W. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static, set program, and in an era preoccupied with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently rarely measured or adjusted for risk, while accounting...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate.
These two volumes update the earlier Means-Tested Transfer Programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate.
These two volumes update the earlier Means-Tested Transfer Programs...
Valuing Life
Humanizing the Regulatory State
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States’s regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can humanize regulation—and save lives in the process.
As...
Clashing over Commerce
A History of US Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers,...
Confident Pluralism
Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the country...
The Lofts of SoHo
Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed...
Completing College
Rethinking Institutional Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success....
Reinventing Public Education
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose...
Start-Up Poland
The People Who Transformed an Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as “bread,” “shoes,” and “milk products,” from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you’d be hard-pressed to recognize the same squares—buzzing...