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  • Inequality by Design

    Cracking the Bell Curve Myth

    de Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, Kim Voss ...
    As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a ... Leer más

    $47.59 USD

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  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    de Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    de Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Happiness

    A Revolution in Economics

    de Bruno S. Frey ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Losing Ground (10th Anniversary Edition)

    American Social Policy, 1950-1980

    de Charles Murray ...
    This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending that we abolish welfare reform, but his position launched a debate culminating in President ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    de Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Stuck in Place

    Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

    de Patrick Sharkey ...
    In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades. In Stuck in Place, Sharkey describes how ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    de Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Leer más

    $79.19 USD

  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    de Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Handbook of Social Policy

    Edición de James O. Midgley, Michelle M. Livermore ...
    Social policy is a continuously evolving field requiring constant review, documentation, and analysis. The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more ... Leer más

    $141.29 USD

  • Aid from International NGOs

    Blind Spots on the AID Allocation Map

    de Dirk-Jan Koch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    International NGOs are increasingly important players within the new aid architecture but their geographic choices remain uncharted territory. This book focuses on patterns of development assistance, mapping, while analysing and assessing the country choices of the largest international NGOs. Koch's approach is interdisciplinary and uses qualitative, quantitative and experimental methods to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Inequality Reader

    Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

    de David Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi ...
    Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD