Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Aronoff & Alyssa Battistoni & Daniel Aldana Cohen & Thea Riofrancos

Instead of roaming the fields, though, garment workers sat in the factory for ten hours a day. It could be otherwise, Newman insisted: “A six-hour day in Spring! What a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Julia Walker & Alma Pekmezovic & Gordon Walker

It becomes evident from Table 10.1 that financial inclusion is probably one of, if not the most, important of the intermediate steps that economies must take on their (long) way ...
( Category: Economic Policy November 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Rob Dietz

WHAT COULD WE DO INSTEAD? The goal for employment in a steady-state economy is straightforward: secure enough jobs for people who want them, and make sure labor is directed toward ...
( Category: Economic Policy November 20,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-11-15 | Author:Thomas Philippon

The Impact of Lobbying While there may be much that we don’t know about the precise impact of lobbying, the data we’ve been able to assemble tell us two key ...
( Category: Economic Policy November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear

* * * The shutdown was short-lived; before long, Schumer caved and agreed to a spending agreement, and McConnell committed to holding a series of votes in the coming days ...
( Category: Immigration November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Michael T. Klare

RISING TEMPERATURES, BIGGER STORMS, AND GROWING PENTAGON INVOLVEMENT Ever since U.S. military and intelligence officials began pondering the impact of climate change on American national security, they have consistently assumed ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

EVERYONE WAS RIGHT, EVERYONE WAS WRONG Where does all of this leave us in our understanding of economic growth? Well, Robert Solow was right. Growth seems to slow down as ...
( Category: Economic Policy November 16,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-11-13 | Author:Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev

THE UNION COULD HAVE BEEN PRESERVED « it is important, vitally important, that this very complex process not intensify destructive tendencies that can be observed in society. After all, it ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Smith

Dzerzhinsky asked what had gone wrong, and Haskell gave a long list of the troubles he’d been experiencing with Eiduk. For every complaint Eiduk had an excuse, and for every ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:Sarah Kreps

Consequences of a War without Apparent Costs Afghanistan was often labeled the “good war” as Obama had called it, legitimate and necessary when contrasted with the Iraq War, and less ...
( Category: Military Policy November 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-28 | Author:Prerna Lal [Lal, Prerna]

The New Age of Resistance Thousands of immigrants in the United States woke up to a new political reality on November 9, 2016: Donald Trump, the most rabidly anti-immigrant, white ...
( Category: Asian October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Rosa L. DeLauro

9 In Defense Of Children A family, like a house, can withstand only as much wind and weather as its construction and maintenance allow; the storms that rage around the ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Fabio Parasecoli

Embracing New Perspectives Food geographies are shifting globally, forcing production patterns and economies to adjust and reorganize themselves. As the interconnection between agriculture and climate change becomes clearer, new resilience, ...
( Category: Agriculture & Food Policy October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Bjørn Lomborg [Lomborg, Bjørn]

( Category: Environmental Policy October 24,2019 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Sasha Polakow-Suransky

12 THE RISE OF WHITE IDENTITY POLITICS Thierry Baudet is the slick-haired sophist behind the Dutch new right. He runs a think tank called Forum for Democracy, which has now ...
( Category: Immigration October 24,2019 )