Government category: 19669 books
Monetary Alternatives
Rethinking Government Fiat Money
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What monetary system best serves society? The current system of pure government fiat monies, managed by discretionary central banks, is inefficient and unstable. Monetary Alternatives explores fundamental and controversial ideas that move our monetary system and economy beyond repeated crises to sustainable...
Hidden in Plain Sight
What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis-and Why It Could Happen Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The 2008 financial crisis-like the Great Depression-was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced...
Fixing the Future
How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In 1993, most Canadians believed that big government deficits were permanent and that the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was in such deep trouble that younger Canadians would never collect a retirement pension. They believed too that Canada's politicians were incapable of dealing with either problem. Yet...
Flak-Catchers
One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial violence in the United States over the last century....
by Lynn E. Davis, Debra Knopman, Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed to design a new, single-purpose organization to manage and dispose of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials and examines three models...
The Art of Public Strategy
Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian...
by William J. Rothwell PhD, SPHR, Aileen G. Zaballero CPLP
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Taxpayers deserve the very best from public services, and first-rate public services can only be provided by outstanding government workers. Federal human resource managers face the challenge of attracting and retaining high-caliber individuals within the constraints of ever-tightening budgets...
Uber-Positive
Why Americans Love the Sharing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Entire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living-even in today’s slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy.
Even in the face of these benefits,...
by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an economic,...
by Joe Costello
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Of, By, For is a compilation of thoughts, analysis, and short essays on American politics. The underlying theme; American politics is both corrupt and dysfunctional. Its conclusion; American political economy must be democratically reformed, using both the knowledge we have from the past and imagination...
Lobbyists, Governments and Public Trust, Volume 1
Increasing Transparency through Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Lobbying can improve policy making by providing valuable insights and data, but it can also result in unfair advantages for vested interests if the process is opaque and standards are lax. Lobbying is resource intensive. The financial services sector in the United States spent USD 3.4 billion...
by Leisha DeHart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape...
Beyond Politics
The Roots of Government Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property...
Corporate Mergers Transitioning the American Economy
Corporate Buyouts and a Junk Bond Market out of Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The American economy continues to be driven by corporate mergers, buyouts, and activities in the junk bond market that few people understand.
Good and bad business activities have a pronounced effect on all Americans, who are often being harmed by corporations large and small, as well as occasionally...