Public Policy
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Seven Deadly Economic Sins
$22.00 Add to cartCompelling basic principles of economics every citizen should know to enable better personal decision-making and better evaluation of public policy.
- Author: Otteson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1108824382
- Language: English
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CUI Informed: The definitive guide to the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information Program
$99.99 Add to cartBased on lessons learned as a result of the 9/11 attacks, the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information (“CUI”) program fundamentally reshapes the way the Federal Government ident
- Series: Cui Informed
- Author: Goepel, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989103720
- Language: English
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths
$18.00 Add to cartAward-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato’s famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector–with a new preface by the au… [more below]
- Author: Mazzucato, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593656938
- Language: English
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The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
$21.00 Add to cartThe 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions
Climate change is profoundly altering our worl
- Author: Nordhaus, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 030021264X
- Language: English
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartWhile there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies–regulations, taxes, and prohibitions–designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Tho… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Kleiman, Mark A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 13 2011
- ISBN10: 199764506
- Language: English
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$45.50 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite dif- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762487
- Language: English
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A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin: A Path Toward a More Just, Equitable, and Peaceful World
$29.99 Add to cartA Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin is for everyone who is starting to learn about Bitcoin and wants to understand the reality behind the buzz. Exploring the value proposition of Bitcoin through a progre… [more below]
- Author: Maier, C. Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987636305
- Language: English
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How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
$24.00 Add to cartA provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes
What constitutes the good life?- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1590516346
- Language: English
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The Lucky Poor
$12.00 Add to cart“Will appeal to a range of readers, from fans of Raina Telgemeier to comics on social issues.” — BOOKLIST
Mazie’s family has been offered a fantastic gift: their very own, brand-new house, built for- Author: Lovie, Mazie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1638991251
- Language: English
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Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy
$36.00 Add to cartAfter everything that’s happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common
- Author: Shenker-Osorio, Anat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391772
- Language: English
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
$21.99 Add to cartFormer Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time… [more below]
- Author: Paulson, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1455551902
- Language: English
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A Case for Compassion: What Happens When We Prioritize People and the Planet
$15.99 Add to cart“This clear-eyed vision for a more compassionate world will inspire you to take action in your own community.” -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, author of The Willpower Instinct
What would happen if the systems
- Author: Schairer, Sara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: January 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885044561
- Language: English
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Doomed To Fail: Why Government Is Incapable of Living up to Our Hopes
$25.99 Add to cartHuman societies are complex adaptive systems, the nature of which has important ramifications for the way in which countries organize themselves politically and arrange themselves economically.
In Doom
- Author: Paul, Shotton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1956257896
- Language: English
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The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartHow trade imbalances spurred on the global financial crisis and why we aren’t out of trouble yet
China’s economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating ser- Author: Pettis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163626
- Language: English
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Development: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?
The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198736258
- Language: English
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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
$30.00 Add to cartBest-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.
– Susan- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400792
- Language: English
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay- Author: Chaudhary, Ajay Singh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672112
- Language: English
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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
$26.95 Read moreInvestigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.
Big Pharma is more interested in profit t- Author: Dearden, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291455
- Language: English
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.00 Add to cartIn a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind’s greatest innovations.
“A towerin- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525436332
- Language: English
