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“anne alstott”

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  • Politics, Policy, and Public Options

    Edited by Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne Alstott ...
    A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Stakeholder Society

    by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott ...
    A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen’s stake of eighty thousand ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    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

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  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • International Tax Policy

    Between Competition and Cooperation

    by Tsilly Dagan ...
    Series series Cambridge Tax Law Series
    Bringing a unique voice to international taxation, this book argues against the conventional support of multilateral co-operation in favour of structured competition as a way to promote both justice and efficiency in international tax policy. Tsilly Dagan analyzes international taxation as a decentralized market, where governments have increasingly become strategic actors. While many of the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Corporations and Citizenship

    Edited by Greg Urban ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." But while corporations are ostensibly regulated by citizens through their governments, the firms in turn regulate many aspects of social and political life for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Community Economic Development Movement

    Law, Business, and the New Social Policy

    by William H. Simon ...
    While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and business opportunities in low-income neighborhoods.In this book William H. Simon provides the first ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Behind Tax Policy Controversies

    Social, Legal and Economic Foundations

    by Steven Sheffrin ...
    Series series Anthem Critical Introductions
    This book is designed to be a short, critical introduction to the controversies in tax policy. The main thesis of the book is that there is a deeper substructure to debates about tax policy that underlie many of the controversies. By understanding the nature of this substructure one can place the debates about tax policy into a broader perspective. The book elucidates this underlying architecture, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,<... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Second Edition

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies**"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―**Baltimore SunIn Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Economics for the Rest of Us

    Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal

    by Moshe Adler ...
    "Vivid case studies . . . Adler's frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking." — Publishers WeeklyWhy do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar ... Read more

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