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  • Furthering Fair Housing

    Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods

    Edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale, Maia S. Woluchem ...
    The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources and opportunities, such as high-performing schools or access to jobs, since the 1968 Fair Housing Act. However, in an effort to appeal to suburban voters, the Trump administration repealed the rule in 2020, leaving its future in doubt.Furthering Fair ... Read more

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  • The Dream Revisited

    Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity

    Edited by Ingrid Ellen, Justin Steil ...
    A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation’s persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated?The Dream Revisited brings together a ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Searching for the Just City

    Debates in Urban Theory and Practice

    Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, Justin Steil ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and principles of justice are rarely the explicit basis for the resolution of disputes. If today’s cities are ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

    $18.49 CAD

  • Edge of Chaos

    Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Vanishing Middle Class

    Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

    by Peter Temin ...
    Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor—and how racism helped bring this about.The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • The Submerged State

    How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

    by Suzanne Mettler ...
    "Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration has been roundly criticized for its inability to convey how much it has accomplished for ordinary ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Beyond Capitalism

    Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

    by Gar Alperovitz ...
    "Be prepared for a mind-opening experience."-The Christian Century"Highly readable; excellent for students. . . . A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works."-Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"America Beyond Capitalism comes at a critical time in our history-when we all know our system isn't working but we are not sure ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unholy Trinity

    The IMF, World Bank and WTO

    by Richard Peet ...
    Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it?The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Degrees of Inequality

    How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

    by Suzanne Mettler ...
    America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

    Was $46.19 CAD Now $25.29 CAD

  • The Logic of Discipline

    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD