Public Affairs & Policy
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Michael Grunwald [Grunwald, Michael]

“A Very Narrow Party of Angry People” Mount Redoubt did feel like a hint from the universe that the Republican Party was blowing itself up.281 Minority parties often look inept ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Sykes, Charles J. [Sykes, Charles J.]

Bipartisan Madness While greed undoubtedly drove much of the mortgage mess, politics constantly provided the spur. History will record that the mortgage madness and subsequent bailouts occurred under both Democratic ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Nouriel Roubini

Chapter 8 First Steps It’s a truism that crises go hand in hand with regulation and reform of the financial system. The near-death experience of a financial crisis pushes many ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Robert Kuttner [Kuttner, Robert]

PART THREE Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Debt BY NOW, SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS SHOULD be evident. Reckless indebtedness leads to crisis. More often than not, the culprit is debt that ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Cathy Glass [Glass, Cathy]

Chapter Fifteen Family The following morning I woke Dawn at 7.15 a.m., and told her it was time to get up for school. She opened her eyes and looked at ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Shane Dunphy [Dunphy, Shane]

Tammy and Arga were fighting like tiny Tasmanian devils. The only thing I could think to do was to scoop the pair of them up and carry them away from ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-27 | Author:United States Supreme Court

( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Kleiman, Mark A. R. [Kleiman, Mark A. R.]

SKETCH OF A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS How do the three main categories of criminal-justice expenditure—on policing, on incarceration, and on community corrections—stack up against one another as ways of spending public ...
( Category: Criminal Procedure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Some Partial Explanations: Time, Taxes, and Growth In the end, then, it is hardly surprising that the concentration of wealth decreased sharply everywhere between 1910 and 1950. In other words, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:David Harvey [Harvey, David]

CHAPTER 13: CO-OPERATION The three chapters that follow deal with the various ways in which capitalists can procure relative surplus-value of the individual sort. The overall focus is on whatever ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )