Yale University Press: 2009 books
Ascending India and Its State Capacity
Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A comprehensive and revealing account of the ongoing struggles and instability of India’s political and economic institutions India’s ascent as a formidable power on the world stage and its geopolitical ramifications have received much attention in recent years. This comprehensive study by Sumit...
by Dilip Hiro
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This hard-hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. By meticulously tracking the rise of the jihadist movement from its initial violence in Afghanistan in 1980 to the present day, Dilip Hiro challenges...
The City of Tomorrow
Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and...
Freedom to Harm
The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
How much economic freedom is a good thing? This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice...
Breaking the Logjam
Environmental Protection That Will Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field...
The Cost of Accidents
A Legal and Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1970
by Carter Vaughn Findley
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Europe's Deadlock
How the Euro Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why It Won't Happen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In this short, fiercely argued book, David Marsh explains how five years of continuous crisis management not only have failed to resolve the EurozoneÆs problems but have actually made things worse. While austerity-wracked southern states descend into misery and resentment, creditor countriesùled by...
Europe's Deadlock
How the Euro Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why It Still Won't Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
With new material on the astonishing 2014–15 monetary rollercoaster, an incisive chronicler of the euro’s upheavals explains how Europe’s single currency has lurched in and out of crisis—with widespread repercussions for Britain and the rest of the world. “Marsh is an expert chronicler...
by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship...
Democracy in Retreat
The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life-how the work ethic is changing; how...
by Professor Richard Harvey Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements of these changes from more global influences. His...
The Climate Casino
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and...