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by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking...
Confronting Inequality
How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International...
Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America.
The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has...
by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance,...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The economics profession is ripe for a paradigm shift. Anomalies proliferate with an increasing number of economists searching for a more valid, reliable and helpful approach, whether it is adjustments in GDP, neoKeynesianism, critical theory, monetary reform, or more sublte changes such as modifying...
Fossil Capital
The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find...
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated...
by Lita Epstein MBA
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
With The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide® to Understanding the Healthcare Reform Bill, learn the overview of the bill as well as how it impacts the day-to-day structure of Medicare, hospital stays, and more!
Unsavory Truth
How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
America's leading nutritionist exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit
Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what...
Code Red
An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's...
Budgeting and Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Using Money to Drive Mission Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In the nonprofit sector, money drives mission. Well-managed budgets and investments can spur long-term growth and achievement, while financial mismanagement can damage or destroy an organization. Lynne A. Weikart, Greg G. Chen, and Ed Sermier—in their exciting new text geared wholly to nonprofits—provide...
Saving the World On Thirty Dollars a Day
An Activist's Guide to Starting, Organizing and Running a Non-Profit Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Activist and Author Charles Sheehan-Miles, founder of the National Gulf War Resource Center and former executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, gives hard won practical suggestions and advice to people who want to set out to change the world. In 1993, starting with no money, resources, members...
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians. Insight is her imprint.”—USA TODAY
“A book like Leadership should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country and ourselves.”—The...