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Pennsylvania State University Press Why Budgets Matter Budget Policy and American
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive account of how conflicts over taxes, spending, deficits, and debt have shaped American political development from the nation’s founding until today.Trade Review“Ippolito’s analysis of the budget process is an important contribution to the literature on the American budget process. It is unquestionably one of the best books on the subject, similar in scope to Aaron Wildavsky’s classic The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1988). Overall, Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics is an excellent historical account of the federal budget process, and it is intended for a general adult reading audience.”—Patrick Fisher,Perspectives on Political Science, on the first edition“This book is without doubt the best analysis yet written of federal budgeting from the late eighteenth century to the present. . . . The subject matter of this splendid book should therefore be of immense interest to students of political history and public policy.”—Iwan Morgan,Journal of American History, on the first editionTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and TablesPrefaceChapter One Perspectives on Budget PolicyChapter Two The "Small Government" Era (1789–1860)Chapter Three Budgeting for Government Growth (1860–1915)Chapter Four The Transition to Modern Government (1915–1940)Chapter Five War and Defense Budgets (1940–1970)Chapter Six Social Welfare Budgets and Deficits (1970–1990)Chapter Seven Reconciliation and Balanced Budgets (1990-2001)Chapter Eight Destabilizing Budget Policy (2001– )Selected BibliographyIndex
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ABC-CLIO Space the Dormant Frontier
Book SynopsisRather than examining only the civil or military side of the US space program, as have many books in the past, Space, the Dormant Frontier takes a unique look at the space program as a whole.Table of ContentsRepackaging the Dream Policy Overview: If You Don't Care Where You're Going, Any Road Will Take You There The Situation Space as a Government Domain History As Inertia The Economics of Space, Breaking the Dependency Cycle The Opportunity Semidesperate Times Seeking New Opportunities The Method Convergence, Merging the Space Technology Bases Change the Paradigm, Incorporate Politics and Emphasize Economics A Parallel Development Plan Selected Bibliography Index
£70.00
ABC-CLIO Small Business Policy and the American Creed
Book SynopsisUnlike government programs for farmers and big businesses, which are usually invisible to the citizenry, small business aid programs are extremely and intentionally visible.Congress declared the policy of aiding small business and launched the contemporary era of small business assistance programs in the Small Business Act of 1953.Table of ContentsHow Do American Core Values Influence Public Policy? Problem and Policy Heritage: The Antitrust Tradition, Depression, and War Problems of Competition, Opportunity, and Equal Opportunity for a Victim: The Small Business Act of 1953 Problems Reprised: Institutionalizing Small Business Aid in the 1950s Problems Adrift: Expanding Without Innovation in the 1960s and 1970s Problems of Equalities for Small Disadvantaged Business: A Second Track in the 1960s and 1970s Problems of Jobs, Exports, Innovation, and Equal Opportunity for a Victim: Surviving and Expanding in the 1980s and 1990s Core Values, Problem Definitions, and Public Policy Appendices
£55.00
Yale University Press Medicines Dilemmas
Book SynopsisDiscusses the current US health care crisis and alternative proposals, including the Clinton administration's. Drawing on wide medical and business experience, the study suggests implementing a new federal policy at state and local levels, which best understand their area's needs.Table of ContentsNo cost is too great to save a life, but somebody has to pay; health care issues of the 1990s; health - the object of an infinite quest; health care is a cultural affair; resource allocation in health care; medicine and management - a synthesis; the past as prologue; National Health Insurance proposals; "To The States Respectively"; "Promote the General Welfare"; "Hang Together ... or Hang Separately"; health care forces for the 21st century.
£27.10
Yale University Press Power Without Responsibility
Book SynopsisArguing that Congress process of making law is as corrosive to the US as unchecked deficit spending, this book aims to show that Congress and the President of the USA, instead of making the laws that govern America, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations.
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Yale University Press The Stakeholder Society
Book SynopsisWhat would happen, ask the authors of this text, if America were to make good its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen's stake of 80,000 dollars? They analyze this initiative from moral, political, economic, legal and human perspectives.Trade Review"A serious, smart book, which also functions as a cogent critique of the inequality of opportunity that has become a given in modern America." New Yorker "A Big New Idea so bold in its simplicity, so pure in its claims to justice,...that the only shock is that it is certain to get a hearing as the fight to fix Social Security heats up this year." Matthew Miller, New York Times Magazine "The new century needs political and social innovation even more than it needs business innovation. The authors have done well what intellectuals are supposed, but are seldom bold enough, to do: innovate ideas about important social issues." Jack Beatty, Atlantic Monthly "A big idea like this is significant because it can reframe the public debate. It can change the prevailing assumptions. Eventually, it can change the course of the nation." Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, Washington Post
£34.89
PRH Grupo Editorial Tierra de todos Nuestro momento para crear una naciÃn de iguales A Country fo r All An Immigrant Manifesto
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St. Martin's Griffin Collision and Collusion The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe
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ABC-CLIO Domestic Policy Formation
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Not Stated This Is the Fire
Book SynopsisIn this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them.Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.
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Back Bay Books The Age of AI
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Little, Brown Spark Food Fix
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sibling Relationships Theory and Issues for Practice
Book SynopsisROBERT SANDERS is lecturer in child welfare and child development at University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of The Management of Child Protection (Ashgate 1999) and co-author, with Matthew Colton and Margaret Williams, of An Introduction to Working with Children (Palgrave 2001).
£152.06
Lulu.com Workers Councils The Libertarian Socialist Philosophy of Workers SelfRule in Governing Local Regions Hardcover
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Lulu Press Workers Councils
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ReadHowYouWant Leading from the Emerging Future From EgoSystem to EcoSystem Economies 16pt Large Print Edition
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Power Inc The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Governmentand the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
Book SynopsisThe world''s largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world''s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The world''s largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country on the planet. A private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spends as much worldwide on health care as the World Health Organization. The rise of private power may be the most important and least understood trend of our time. David Rothkopf provides a fresh, timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states. Beginning with the story of an inquisitive Swedish goat wandering off from his master and inadvertently triggering the birth of the oldest company still in existence, Power, Inc. follows the rise and fall of kings and empir
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Book SynopsisA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most importantand difficultaudience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter's generation stands to inherit. Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our ageand through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.
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W. W. Norton & Company The Moon and the Ghetto
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W. W. Norton & Company Inevitable Revolutions 2e The United States in Central America Paper
Book SynopsisGuatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US.
£22.80
W. W. Norton & Company Ultimate Security The Environmental Basis of Political Stability
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Management and Governance Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Responses to Terrorism
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Little, Brown & Company End the Fed
Book SynopsisRon Paul--the Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author--returns with another provocative and controversial treatise that argues we cannot actually fix the broken economy without discussing the 800-lb gorilla in the room: the Federal Reserve.
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Penguin Random House LLC Latino Americans The 500Year Legacy That Shaped a
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Penguin Publishing Group Threshold The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink
Book SynopsisFrom America's #1 progressive radio host, the idealogical heir to his influential The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight More than three million listeners tune in every weekday to hear what Thom Hartmann has to say about the state of our world. Now, as the first decade of the twenty-first century closes amid economic collapse and the seeming ruin of the American Dream, America's #1 rated progressive radio host sounds an urgent call to arms for building a better, more sustainable world-while there's still time. Offering not just an indictment of the failures that have courted economic, demographic, and environmental ruin, Hartmann also outlines five critical personal and policy solutions to bring us back from the brink. Threshold-like Jared Diamond's Collapse-is radical but rooted in common sense, illuminating the necessary next steps in the evolution of mainstream thinking.
£18.90
Random House USA Inc Sandworm
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Random House USA Inc The Whiteness of Wealth
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE • “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistDorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare tax returns for her parents, she found something strange: James and Dottie Brown, a plumber and a nurse, seemed to be paying an unusually high percentage o
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Random House USA Inc Evicted
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Penguin Putnam Inc How the World Really Works
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates “Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing
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Penguin Putnam Inc How the World Really Works
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates “Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check—because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn’t inevitable—the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world’s rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020—and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.
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Alfred A. Knopf The Age of Extraction
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Penguin Books Ltd The Wage Standard
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iUniverse Middle Clash the issues which will to the creation of a successful third party in the 21st Century Issues Which Will Create a Third Party in the 21st Century
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iUniverse Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods
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iUniverse Building Regulation Market Alternatives and Allodial Policy
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iUniverse Injecting Incentives Into the Solution of Social and Environmental Problems Social Policy Bonds
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iUniverse Eisenhower and Social Security The Origins of the Disability Program
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iUniverse Analyzing the Development of the American Child Support System a Study in Social Policy Development
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iUniverse Starving in the Shadow of Plenty
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iUniverse Reforming Healthcare What the Public Needs to Know
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iUniverse SIMPLIFIED TAX SYSTEM A Counterculture Proposal
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iUniverse Constitutional Issues in Federal Management of Domestic Terrorism Incidents
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iUniverse Schizophrenic in Japan An American ExPats Guide to Japanese and American SocietyPolitics Humor
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iUniverse Dubya The Toxic Texan George W Bush and Environmental Degradation
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iUniverse Apartheid South Africa An Insiders Overview of the Origin and Effects of Separate Development
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iUniverse The Tao of Politics
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iUniverse Washington DCs Challenges
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