Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Jane Jacobs [Jacobs, Jane]

Part three FORCES OF DECLINE AND REGENERATION 13 The self-destruction of diversity My observations and conclusions thus far sum up to this: In our American cities, we need all kinds ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu [Stuckler, David]

7 Returning to Work On May 4, 2012, a crowd of women waving white flags marched to the entrance of the Italian government’s Equitalia tax office in Bologna. They were ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller [Akerlof, George A. & Shiller, Robert J.]

Going North We need only go north to Canada to see a case in which Samuelson’s fears came true. Canada provides an instance in which denial of a tradeoff between ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Joseph Nathan;

Figure 5.2 Mean Household Spending, 1984–2014. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015). Areas of Rising Expenditures While the prices of consumer products generally fell in proportion to incomes, spending rose ...
( Category: Social Security March 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Reader, John [Reader, John]

Havana's achievements in urban agriculture are impressive, showing how much a city can do to feed itself and how quickly the benefits accrue once the need is recognised and the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Matt Farwell & Michael Ames

SIXTEEN BOB’S WAR Bob and Jani’s lives were now fully intertwined with the U.S. government’s fiasco in Afghanistan, their son’s fate to be determined by the same convoluted calculus that ...
( Category: Afghan War March 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Hanson, Victor Davis

PART THREE TRUMP METAPHYSICS The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a ...
( Category: Immigration March 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:David Wallace-Wells;

* * * — If we do succeed, and pull up short of two or even three degrees, the bigger bill will come due not in the name of liability ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 7,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

PART THREE TRUMP METAPHYSICS The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a ...
( Category: Immigration March 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Berenson

EIGHT STUDY AFTER STUDY AFTER STUDY As journalists spread the feel-good myth about cannabis as a cure for opiates, hard evidence linking the drug to psychosis kept coming, from all ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gaskin-Reyes, Camille;

Poor Water Management Another element of the looming crisis is poor management of water resources. The problem was dramatized in July 2009 when inhabitants in five villages in Nigeria’s Kano ...
( Category: Environmental February 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mason B. Williams

Citizens Budget Commission, Fiscal Facts Concerning the City of New York: Vols. 1–2 (New York, 1940, 1947). II Shortly after his reelection, La Guardia, in Washington for the annual meeting ...
( Category: Social Policy February 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Raghuram Rajan

THE GROWING DIVIDE Surveys of people’s values across developed countries suggest that people tend to have greater trust and affinity for strangers, as well as are more concerned about the ...
( Category: Social Policy February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Chuck Collins

4 Reducing the Concentration of Wealth Reversing inequality requires policies that raise the floor and level the playing field. But we cannot ignore the rigged rules that are exacerbating the ...
( Category: Social Policy October 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-11-02 | Author:David B. Feinberg [Feinberg, David B.]

6. Anxiety as Fuel No matter what I do or think, AIDS remains the subtext, the subliminal humming of that perpetual-motion machine with six rechargeable Energizer batteries hidden in the ...
( Category: LGBT December 1,2017 )