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“leah downey”

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  • A Political Economy of Justice

    Edited by Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Josh Simons, Professor Rebecca Henderson ...
    Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people interact in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of where it ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Our Money

    Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters

    by Leah Rose Ely Downey ...
    How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democraticThe power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, that power has been largely delegated to private banks governed by an independent central bank. Putting monetary policy in the hands of a set of insulated, nonelected experts has fueled the popular rejection of expertise as well as a widespread ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

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  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It

    by Charles E. Lindblom ...
    In the wake of the collapse of communism, we hear much about the victory of the market system.” Just what is the market system? This clear and accessible book begins by answering this question, then goes on to explain how the market system works and what it can and cannot do. Charles E. Lindblom, writing in nontechnical language for a wide general audience, offers an evenhanded view of the market ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Road to Freedom

    How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise

    by Arthur C. Brooks ...
    Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions -- by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Diminishing Returns

    The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation

    by Mark Blyth, Jonas Pontusson, Lucio Baccaro ...
    A set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country, regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As highlighted by the recent debate on 'secular stagnation,' economic growth has slowed down considerably, and this has given rise to a host of new problems, from financial instability to the collapse of mainstream ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • State-Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD