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Legislating in the Dark
Information and Power in the House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn’t even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to digest so much information in such a short time.
The...
Living Legislation
Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when...
Threads
Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex...
Run, Spot, Run
The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we’re providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there’s another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as powerful: guilt. When we see our cats gazing wistfully...
Flawed System/Flawed Self
Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it’s above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of...
The Whale and the Reactor
A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."—David Dickson, New York...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional"...
Innovation Equity
Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
From drones to wearable technology to Hyperloop pods that can potentially travel more than seven hundred miles per hour, we’re fascinated with new products and technologies that seem to come straight out of science fiction. But, innovations are not only fascinating, they’re polarizing, as, all...
Stuck in Place
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions
Why Cities Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polèse argues in The Wealth and Poverty of Regions, geography will matter more than ever before in a world where distance is allegedly dead.
This...
Confederate Cities
The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war,...
New York's New Edge
Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets...
The Trend of Economic Thinking
Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Iron Curtain has been cast aside. The Berlin Wall has fallen. Germany has been reunited. And F. A. Hayek's forceful predictions of the inevitable failure of socialism and central economic planning are now rendered irrefutable. Yet Hayek still rightfully cautions us to heed his arguments, warning...
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses
Current Knowledge and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, many...