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Penguin Putnam Inc Tales of Two Americas
Book SynopsisThirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world’s most exciting writers
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Oxford University Press Inc The Poverty Paradox Understanding Economic
Book SynopsisThe paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century - why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation''s leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle. The approach is what he has defined over the years as structural vulnerability. Central to this new way of thinking is the distinction between those who lose out at the economic game versus why the game produces losers in the first place. Americans experiencing poverty tend to have certain characteristics placing them at a greater risk of impoverishment. Yet poverty results not from these factors, but rather from a lack of sufficient opportunities in society. In particular, the shortage of decent paying jobs and a strong safety net are paramount. Based upon this understanding, Rank goes on to detail a variety of strategies and programs to effectively alleviate poverty in the future. Implementing these policies has the added benefit of reinforcing several of the nation''s most important values and principles. The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. It provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead.Trade ReviewMark Robert Rank's ambitious book, The Poverty Paradox, is said to be "a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. It provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead". * Craig R. Roach, New York Journal of Books *Mark Rank, one of America's great poverty scholars, has done it again. In crystal clear prose, The Poverty Paradox walks readers through what we know about poverty in the United States, forwards a framework to understand why it persists, and offers evidence-strategies for how we can confront it. It will offer fresh insights to new students, long-time experts, and policymakers alike. * H. Luke Shaefer, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan *After reading Rank, Christians might decide that their vested interests should be in structures that alleviate wealth as much as those that alleviate poverty. * Adam Vander Tuig, The Christian Century *Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsPart I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defining, Measuring, and Counting Chapter 3: The Traditional Perspective Part II: The Structural Vulnerability Framework Chapter 4: Economic Vulnerability and the Role of Human Capital Chapter 5: Cumulative Inequality Chapter 6: Two Levels of Understanding Part III: The Broader Context Chapter 7: Building the Foundation Chapter 8: Policy Implications Chapter 9: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Notes
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Oxford University Press Inc The Economics of Poverty
Book SynopsisWhile there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme poverty than the rich world saw over a period of 100 years or more of economic development. However, continuing progress is far from assured. High and rising inequality has stalled progress against poverty in many countries. We are seeing generally rising relative poverty in the rich world as a whole over recent decades. And even in the developing world, there has been less progress in reaching the poorest, who risk being left behind, and a great many people in the emerging middle class remain highly vulnerable to falling back into poverty.The Economics of Poverty strives to support well-informed efforts to put in place effective policies to assure continuing success in reducing poverty in all its dimensions. The book reviews critically the past and present debates on the central policy issues of economic development everywhere. How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist? What can be done to eliminate poverty? Martin Ravallion provides an accessible new synthesis of current knowledge on these issues. It does not assume that readers know economics already. Those new to economics get a lot of help along the way in understanding its concepts and methods. Economics lives though its relevance to real world problems, and here the problem of global poverty is both the central focus and a vehicle for learning.Trade Review"Many economics students are motivated by the struggle for a better world. Here, at last, is the book for them. Building on extensive research, Ravallion asks: What can we learn about poverty from past thinkers? How should we measure poverty? What reduces it? Readers don't need prior knowledge of economics: this clear, rigorous text teaches the economic basics, not as a chore, but as part of learning what's wrong and how to put it right." -- Michael Lipton, Research Professor of Economics, University of Sussex "This book is a tour de force. Covering history of thought, analytical tools and policy issues, it provides an indispensable introduction to the economics of poverty. Martin Ravallion is a global leader in the field of poverty analysis. His book will prove to be of lasting value not only to students, but also to seasoned researchers and policy analysts." -- Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics, Cornell University "This landmark book demonstrates clearly and convincingly the power of economic ideas and analysis in tackling the blight of global poverty and provides the perfect grounding-rigorous yet inspirational-for young scholars seeking to help the world's poorest." -- Lyn Squire, Director of the World Bank's 1990 World Development Report, Poverty "For the first time in history, we have the knowledge and tools to end extreme poverty. Dr. Ravallion's insightful and practical analysis provides a blueprint for the next generation of leaders to seize this opportunity and build vibrant, inclusive economies." -- Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) "An indispensable reference for anyone interested in any aspect of the economics of poverty by the indisputable world expert in this area." -- François Bourguignon, Paris School of EconomicsTable of ContentsPART 1: HISTORY OF THOUGHT ; Chapter 1: Origins of the Idea of a World Free of Poverty ; Chapter 2: New Thinking on Poverty after 1950 ; PART 2: MEASURES AND METHODS ; Chapter 3: Measuring Welfare ; Chapter 4: Poverty Lines ; Chapter 5: Poverty and Inequality Measures ; Chapter 6: Impact Evaluation ; PART 3: POVERTY AND POLICY ; Chapter 7: Dimensions of Poverty and Inequality in the World ; Chapter 8: Growth, Inequality and Poverty ; Chapter 9: Economy-Wide and Sectoral Policies ; Chapter 10: Targeted Interventions ; Conclusions: Past Progress and Future Challenges
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Oxford University Press Inc Just Shelter
Book SynopsisThe United States of America is experiencing a housing crisis, which, by some estimates, started in the early 2000s and was made worse by the financial crisis of the 2007-2008 recession. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lack decent and affordable housing or everyday shelter. Instead, they must live in tent encampments stowed in the niches of neighborhoods and under the freeway overpasses of many major U.S. cities, often in unsafe conditions. Signs of this crisis are all around: in the spikes of evictions, in nationwide problems with over- and under-development, and in the growing concerns about the sustainability of this nation''s towns and cities in the face of global climate change. This crisis didn''t arise from the specific circumstances of the housing market or shortfalls in the construction of new homes or increased labor and material costs. The current housing crisis is the result of state-sponsored discrimination in housing and land-use policy and the enforcement of racial anTable of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Justice and Social Spatial Arrangements 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Spatial Justice 1.3 Equality and Social Spatial Arrangements 1.4 Distributive Justice Chapter 2: Open Cities and Reconstructive Justice 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Reaching for Transformation 2.3 Open Communities and Substantive Opportunity 2.4 Rectifying Enduring Injustice Chapter 3: The Trouble with Gentrification 3.1 Bad Techies 3.2 The Concept of Gentrification 3.3 Two or Three Cheers for Gentrification 3.4 Here's the Thing about Displacement 3.5 Harms and Inequality Chapter 4: The Harms of Gentrification 4.1 The Harms 4.2 Distributive Justice 4.3 Cultural Loss 4.4 Democratic Inequality 4.5 Pragmatic Rectification Chapter 5: Segregation and the Trouble with Integration 5.1 Know Your Place 5.2 The Concept of Social-Spatial Segregation 5.3 The Benefits of Segregation 5.4 The Harms of Segregation 5.5 Integration as Evenness and Mobility 5.6 Integration is not a Proxy for Justice Chapter 6: Reconstructing Integration 6.1 What Remains of Integration 6.2 Integration as Reconstruction 6.3 Outcomes, not Conversion Chapter 7: Conclusion 7. Discomfiting Justice Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Understanding Poverty
Book SynopsisUnderstanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of excessive population growth, corruption and ethnic conflict. The next section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, what we should and should not expect from micro-credit, what we should do about child labor, how toTrade ReviewA serious examination of where we stand and what we need to do. * Nicholas Kristof, The New York Review of Books *Mass poverty is mankind's oldest, yet still most pressing, problem. Understanding Poverty describes the attack that economists are making to understand it on many different fronts. Every reader of the essays in this superb volume will appreciate the currrent excitement of development economics and the enormous progress it has made in the last two decades. * George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001 *Table of ContentsAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou and Dilip Mookherjee: Introduction 1: Angus Deaton: Measuring Poverty PART I: The Causes of Poverty 2: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson: Understanding Prosperity and Poverty: Geography, Institutions, and the Reversal of Fortune 3: Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff: Colonialism, Inequality, And Long-Run Paths Of Development 4: Thomas Piketty: The Kuznets Curve: Yesterday and Tomorrow 5: Philippe Aghion & Beatriz Armendàriz de Aghion: A New Growth Approach to Poverty Alleviation 6: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee: Globalization and All That 7: Pranab Bardhan: The Global Economy and the Poor 8: Mukesh Eswaran & Ashok Kotwal: The Role of Agriculture in Development 9: T. Paul Schultz: Fertility and Income 10: Mukesh Eswaran: Fertility in Developing Countries 11: Jean-Jacques Laffont: Corruption and Development 12: Edward Miguel: Ethnic Diversity and Poverty Reduction PART II: How Should We Go About Fighting Poverty? 13: Emmanuel Saez: Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries 14: Martin Ravallion: Transfers and Safety Nets in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options 15: Dilip Mookherjee: Poverty Persistence and Design of Antipoverty Policies 16: Christopher Udry: Child Labor 17: Kaushik Basu: Policy Dilemmas for Controlling Child Labor 18: Anne Case: The Primacy of Education 19: Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak: Public Goods and Economic Development 20: Jean Tirole: Intellectual Property and Health in Developing Countries 21: Michael Kremer: Public Policies to Stimulate Development of Vaccines for Neglected Diseases 22: Jonathan Morduch: Microinsurance: The Next Revolution? 23: Robert M. Townsend: 23) Credit, Intermediation, and Poverty Reduction PART III: New Ways of Thinking About Poverty 24: Esther Duflo: Poor but Rational? 25: Sendhil Mullainathan: Better Choices to Reduce Poverty 26: Kaivan Munshi: Nonmarket Institutions 27: Glenn C. Loury: Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory 28: Debraj Ray: Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change
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Oxford University Press Rich Democracies Poor People
Book SynopsisPoverty is not simply the result of an individual''s characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. Drawing on over thirty years of data from eighteen countries, Brady argues that cross-national and historical variations in poverty are principally driven by differences in the generosity of the welfare state. An explicit challenge to mainstream views of poverty as an inescapable outcome of individual failings or a society''s labor markets and demography, this book offers institutionalized power relations theory as an alternative explanation. The power of coalitions for egalitarianism, Leftist political groups and parties, and the social policies they are able to institutionalize shape the amount of poverty in society. Where poverty is low, equality has been institutionaTrade Reviewan ambitious, impressively well-argued and long-overdue contribution to the poverty debate. * Fiona Taylor, The Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsAPPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES
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Oxford University Press Inc Why Not Better and Cheaper Healthcare and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Rebitzers explore an overlooked feature of our healthcare system: it is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard for cost-reducing innovations to find a buyer. The book is full of engaging examples and policy ideas. Anyone who cares about innovation in healthcare and wants to make things better should read it. * David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University *In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James and Robert Rebitzer elegantly explain the misaligned incentives in American healthcare and how to fix them. This is a must-read for anyone looking to make healthcare better and cheaper. * Bob Kocher, Partner at Venrock, and Former Special Assistant to President Obama for Healthcare and Economic Policy *The book does not disappoint—it is a masterclass in medicine, law, economics, strategy, and psychology—infused with clever facts and written with a steadfast determination to make the reader smarter about taking health care, which is so doggedly frustrating and expensive, and innovating to make it better and cheaper. * Amitabh Chandra, Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government *At last, a book that explains why a country with extraordinary innovative capacity has a wildly expensive and underperforming healthcare sector—and it's not just the prices! The Brothers Rebitzer use fascinating examples to pinpoint the perverse incentives driving low-value innovation in the U.S. healthcare sector and to show what can be done to can set them right. * Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School *This is a most welcome and important work on U.S. healthcare. Two brothers, Jim and Bob Rebitzer, one an economist and one a business consultant, combine their unique perspectives to give us fresh and deep insights into why healthcare innovation in the U.S. is the way it is and what we can do about it. * Martin Gaynor, E.J. Barone University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University *The promise of innovation is to provide better technologies at lower cost. But in healthcare markets, we often observe that ideas for potential cost-reducing innovations fail to take root and never diffuse to benefit patients. In this fantastic book, Jim and Bob Rebitzer provide a compelling diagnosis of this problem and lay out a road map for how to fix it. * Heidi Williams, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University *A compelling analysis of a question that has long puzzled experts: why innovation does not reliably increase value in healthcare. Combining insights from economics with close inspection of the institutional features of the healthcare system, Why Not Better and Cheaper? shines new light on this health policy conundrum. A must-read for all who want to improve the American health system. * Meredith Rosenthal, Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University *Why Not Better and Cheaper?, shines a light on the remarkable anomaly that, unlike any other industry, innovation and value creation are often opposites in healthcare. The Rebitzers demonstrate this in fascinating and tangible ways, pointing out that meaningful advancements often struggle to see the light of day. An essential read for anyone in healthcare. * Lisa Suennan, Venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur *In a highly readable way, the Rebitzers do a masterful job of synthesizing a vast amount of theory and practice to answer an important question: why we don't have cost reducing innovation in healthcare. The answer lies in the incentives, norms, and competitive structure of our complex, pluralistic, and highly profitable health system. They dissect the problem carefully and compellingly and offer cogent policy suggestions about how to get more healthcare and health for the money we spend. But even these innovations may not be enough to alter the course of a multi trillion dollar 'Pimp My Ride' health system. * Ian Morrison, Author, Consultant, Futurist *Jim and Bob Rebitzer present a compelling analysis about the sources of dysfunction in the American healthcare system. They combine a broad understanding of economics with deep knowledge of healthcare to explain why important innovations often have trouble spreading widely, while marginal ones can proliferate at ruinous prices. And their recommendations, involving incentives, creative application of professional norms, and thoughtfully-regulated competition, offer a useful and optimistic path forward. * Mark Smith, M.D., Founding President and CEO of the California Healthcare Foundation *A concise book with nuggets of insight missing from the conventional economics literature... the Rebitzers have focused correctly on the 'win-win' potential for cost-saving innovation in US health care. This book doesn't provide solutions to many serious problems in US health care, such as the shocking lack of reliable insurance coverage. But by pointing us in the right direction for policy reforms, whether through simplified patent legislation or novel market based incentives to reward the development of new drug-resistant antibiotics, the authors provide a valuable roadmap for making US health care better and cheaper. * Jonathan Skinner, Journal of Economic Literature *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Economically Valuable Innovation Chapter 3: Missing Innovations Chapter 4: Shared Savings Chapter 5: Beyond Financial Incentives Chapter 6: Competition, Innovation, and Disruption Chapter 7: Dilemmas and Opportunities Appendix 1: Does Innovation Respond to Expected Profits? Appendix 2: Incentives Leading to Overlooked Innovations Outside of Healthcare Acknowledgments References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Left to Our Own Devices
Book SynopsisAn examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.Over the past three decades, digital technologies like smartphones and laptops have transformed the way we work in the US. At the same time, workers at both ends of the income ladder have experienced rising levels of job insecurity and anxiety about their economic futures. In Left to Our Own Devices, Julia Ticona explores the ways that workers use their digital technologies to navigate insecure and flexible labor markets. Through 100 interviews with high and low-wage precarious workers across the US, she explores the surprisingly similar digital hustles they use to find work and maintain a sense of dignity and identity. Ticona then reveals how the digital hustle ultimately reproduces inequalities between workers at either end of polarized labor markets. A moving and accessible look at the intimate consequences ofTrade Review...this book contains an excellent and detailed methodological appendix, making it particularly useful to readers who focus on labor or qualitative social science research. * W. Kramer, Cornell University, CHOICE *This is a rare book about media technology that puts people first. Through its stirring prose we see how real people manage data and connectivity in their lives. We get a better sense of the consequences and opportunities of widespread dependence on phones and apps. * Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media *Through the experiences of both low and high-wage workers trying to hustle in today's economy, Left to Our Own Devices brilliantly resists political logics that presume tech is a luxury. Ticona's compelling ethnographic account of workers' lives is an essential read for understanding modern precarity. * danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens *This eminently readable, impressive book, based on outstanding fieldwork with precarious workers, deserves to be widely read. Julia Ticona provides a lucid and nuanced account of how such work requires the 'digital hustle' as technologies are not only essential tools in piecing together paid gigs but are also integral to insecure workers' sense of dignity. * Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics *Left to Our Own Devices is an important look into the digital divide at work and the 'hidden similarities and uncomfortable differences' of economic class. Ticona's sharp analysis teaches readers about the painful realities of both high- and low-wage workers being left to navigate precarious jobs with the tools and tech that they have at hand. The result is a book that shows the future of work, today: a logic fuelled by society's worst stereotypes when, as this book argues, our economic futures are tied tightly together. * Gina Neff, University of Cambridge and author of Venture Labor *Left to Our Own Devices will, no doubt, become a groundbreaking book for several disciplinary conversations around the future of work. Drawing on hundreds of interviews of independent workers, beyond the world of ridesharing apps that, otherwise, dominate press and scholarly conversations, Ticona, instead, offers a rare line-of-site into the lives of people picking up algorithmically managed jobs and how they negotiate privacy and the social boundaries between work and home. Her thinking and writing on the nexus of power she analyzes is nothing less than sublime, crafting a new, much needed path of inquiry. * Mary L. Gray, coauthor of Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research *Left to Our Own Devices is a highly accessible and thought-provoking book that sits nicely alongside other recent contributions that unfold socio-digital inequalities through a meso-level or middle-range theorization...This book therefore paves the way for future research on comparative labor, technology, and inequality studies in variegated socio-economic contexts, as well as cross-national juxtapositions that are still relatively underexplored in the literature. It is undoubtedly a relevant material for anyone interested in socio-digital inequalities, 'the present' of work, as well as the possible future of work life with dignity, autonomy, and self-worth. * Hiu Fung Chung, International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Ch. 1 The Digital Hustle Ch. 2 After Access Ch. 3 Comparative Advantages Ch. 4 Suspending the Hustle Conclusion: Beyond Inclusion Methodological Appendix Reference
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Oxford University Press Poverty
Book SynopsisNo one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about it in the past? And what is being done about it now?In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person''s level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, the schools they attended, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female. Arguing that whilst poverty is ancient and enduring, the conversation about it is always new and evolving, Jefferson looks at the history of poverty, and the practical and analytical efforts we have made to eradicate it, and the prospects for further poverty alleviation in the future.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsCODA: POLITICAL ECONOMY; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Clarendon Press The Moral Demands of Affluence
Book SynopsisHow much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? On any credible moral outlook, other people''s pressing need for assistance can ground moral requirements on us to help them---requirements of beneficence. How far do those requirements extend?One way to think about this is by means of a simple analogy: an analogy between joining in efforts to help people at a distance and rescuing a needy person yourself, directly. Part I of Garrett Cullity''s book examines this analogy. In some ways, the analogy is not only simple, but politically and metaphysically simplistic. However, it contains an important truth: we are morally required to help other people, indirectly as well as directly. But the number of needy people in the world is enormous, and their need is very great. Once we start to recognize requirements to help them, when is it morally acceptable to stop? Cullity answers this question in Part II. Examining the nature of beneficence, he argues that itTrade ReviewReview from previous edition How much money and time does morality oblige the relatively affluent to devote to the relief of poverty, suffering, and other disadvantages? Anyone who finds this question remotely important should read Garrett Cullity's meticulous, even-handed treatment. The publication of this monograph signals the continuing emergence of a normative orientation that one might call "beneficence theory". . . . Many philosophers are attracted to the arguments which Cullity . . . dismantles. They will learn from him. By treating well-chosen opposing views so carefully and thoroughly, the book also rewards those who reject the author's ultimate conclusions. . . . the book offers something for nearly everyone. . . . the chapters are well-organized and clearly written. An advanced undergraduate with an ethics background should be able to follow them, and will gain a sophisticated overview of this vital area. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Cullity has presented us with a thorough, detailed, and serious argument ... an important contribution to the discussion of this issue. * James R. Otteson, Journal of Value Inquiry *Table of Contents1. The Life-Saving Analogy ; 2. An Argument from Beneficence ; 3. Objections to Aid ; 4. Saving Lives ; 5. The Extreme Demand ; 6. Problems of Demandingness ; 7. Impartiality, Fairness, and Beneficence ; 8. The Rejection of the Extreme Demand ; 9. Permission ; 10. Requirement ; 11. Overview ; Appendix 1: Poverty and Aid ; Appendix 2: The Cost of Saving a Life
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Oxford University Press Inequality and Poverty ReExamined
Book SynopsisThe issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time. This accessible book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable changes in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enable cross national comparisons not only of income but also of measures of welfare such as educational achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public dTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty ; CONCEPTUAL ISSUES ; 2. Inequality is Bad for the Poor ; 3. Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union ; 4. Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes ; 5. Inequality Within the Household Reconsidered ; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS ; 6. Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries ; 7. On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion ; 8. Summarizing Multiple Deprivation Indicators ; 9. Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being ; PUBLIC POLICY ; 10. A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children? ; 11. The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA ; 12. Minimum Wages, Training, and the Distribution of Earnings ; 13. Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich
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Oxford University Press, USA Growth Inequality And Poverty Prospects for ProPoor Economic Development Wider Studies in Development Economics
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of papers examining the issue of increasing inequality in the distribution of income in developing countries. Growth, Inequality and Poverty comprises many of the most important contributions to the debate.Trade Review"Growth, Inequality and Poverty, edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph Van Der Hoeven, is a very useful addition to the literature on the subject. Perhaps for the first time, readers will see how the thinking has evolved, converged and where disagreements remain, all in one volume. Readers will also be able to learn about the cutting-edge technical analysis (econometric and otherwise) and observe it applied to countries and regions where poverty is rampant. This book will become an obligatory source for researchers in the subject and reading material for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on development economics." * Dr Nora Lustig, Rectora/President, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México *"In this well researched and excellently edited study an array of experts analyzes the relationships between poverty, inequality and growth. Although there is disagreement on many issues, there is growing agreement that poverty reduction and greater equality are not only desirable in themselves but are also good for economic growth." * Paul Streeten, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Boston University, and founder and chair of the Board of World Development *Together they make a valuable collection of papers on linkages between inequality and/or trade with growth and/or povertyresearchers will find much of value in the volumes, and research students will find the reviews, methods and case studies informative and useful. * Journal of International Development *Table of Contents1. Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements ; 2. Growth is Good for the Poor ; 3. Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond the Averages ; 4. The Growth Elasticity of Poverty ; 5. Education is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay ; 6. Growth, Distribution, and Poverty Reduction: LDCs are Falling Further Behind ; 7. Redistribution Does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction ; 8. Producing and Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries ; 9. Twin Peaks: Distribution Dynamics of Economic Growth Across Indian States ; 10. A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Microsimulation Study for Cote d'Ivoire ; 11. Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A Micro-Simulation for Ceara ; 12. Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
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Oxford University Press Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe
Book SynopsisAs events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty.Based on careful and systematic analysis of national data, the authors describe just how much the two continents differ in their level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. Discussing various possible economic explanations for the difference, they cover different levels of pre-tax income, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems, and the character of their political parties, as well as their experiences of war; and they examine sociological explanations, which include different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility. Most importantly, they address attitudes to race, calculating that attitudes to race explain half the observed difference in levels of public redistrTrade Review... remarkable book ... Mr Alesina and Mr Glaeser, both Harvard economists, are doing what the best in their profession do well these days: seeking to explain society not merely with conventional economic tools but with analysis of institutions, geography and social behaviour. * The Economist 12 March 2004 *In what ways, and why, are the United States and Europe so far apart in social policy? Alesina and Glaeser give us as definitive an answer to this fundamental question as we shall ever see. * George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize Laureate *This probing of the forces behind 'American exceptionalism', as measured by a much smaller welfare state than in Europe, is immensely important. The authors take a multi-discipline approach and consider many factors, including narrowly economic variables, political institutions, racial and ethnic diversity, the effects of wars, attitudes toward the poor, and still others. Their findings are sometimes surprising and frequently provocative. This monograph will quickly become the foundation of further literature on a subject of enormous significance. * Gary S. Becker, Nobel Prize Laureate *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Redistribution in the United Sates and Europe: the data ; 3. Economic explanations ; 4. Political institutions and redistribution ; 5. The origin of political institutions ; 6. Race and redistribution ; 7. The Ideology of Redistribution ; 8. Conclusions ; Index
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Oxford University Press Poor Justice How the Poor Fare in the Courts
Book SynopsisPoor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid and informative account of what happens when the legal system decides cases in areas crucial to the poor''s economic and social well-being, including government benefits, child welfare, homelessness, the mental health system, education, and the criminal justice system. Drawing from court room observations, court decisions and supplementary legal and case materials, this book spans the street level justice of administrative hearings and lower courts (where people plead for welfare benefits or for a child not to be taken away), the mid-level justice of state courts (where advocates argue for the right to shelter for the homeless and for the rights of the mentally disabled), and the high justice of the Supreme Court (where the battle for school integration hPoor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts. Drawing from court room observations, court decisions, and other material, this book spans the street level justice of administrative hearings and lower courts (where people plead for welfare benefits or for a child not to be taken away), the mid-level justice of state courts (where advocates argue for the right to shelter for the homeless and for the rights of the mentally disabled), and the high justice of the Supreme Court (where the battle for school integration has represented a route out of poverty and the stop and frisk cases illustrate a route to greater poverty, through the mass incarceration of people of color). Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it. It seeks to both edify and criticize. Readers will learn not only how courts work, but also how courts sometimes help - and often fail - the poor.as represented a route out of poverty). Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it. It seeks to both edify and criticize. Readers will learn not only how courts work, but also how courts sometimes help, but often fail, the poor.Trade ReviewPoor Justice is one of those rare books that is not only a riveting read, but also makes an important scholarly contribution. Vicki Lens's clear and engaging writing provides readers with a sobering analysis of how marginalized groups fare in the U.S. legal system. As a former legal services lawyer and social scientist, Vicki Lens shares an insider's knowledge with an outsider's critical eye. * Corey Shdaimah, PhD, LLM, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work *Lens draws upon her rich experiences as a lawyer, social worker, and ground-level researcher to illuminate the daily experiences of people without income in the courts. Like almost no one else, she knows unglamorous but essential corners of law, including welfare hearings, commitment proceedings for people with mental disabilities, and family courts. This text is a fine primer on law for the poor - and on the uses and limits of all kinds of law. * Felicia Kornbluh, PhD, MA, Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont *Vicki Lens provides an insider's human perspective on how the courts can in fact work for the least advantaged in our society. Poor Justice deftly combines ethnographic detail of courtroom drama with legal analysis and political critique. It makes for compelling reading and important scholarship about how the courts do indeed offer some basis for hope. This book deserves wide readership by students, scholars, policymakers, and citizens alike. * Sanford Schram, PhD, MA, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY *Professor Lens has written a scholarly and immensely readable analysis of justice - actually the lack of justice - for poor Americans. It is a powerful and irresistible call to action. * Robert Hayes, JD, Founder, National Coalition for the Homeless; President and CEO, Community Healthcare Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Street Level Justice One: The Rules of Engagement Two: Welfare Fair Hearings Three: Child Maltreatment Proceedings Four: The Justice of Street Level Justice Part II: Justice for the Many: Social Reform Litigation Five: Courts as a Catalyst for Social Change Six: Protecting or Coercing Persons with Mental Disabilities Seven: Legal Advocacy for the Homeless Eight: The Justice of Social Reform Litigation Part III: High Justice: The Supreme Court Nine: The Supreme Court Ten: Race, Education and the Constitution Eleven: Criminal Justice and Racial Profiling Twelve: The High Justice of the Supreme Court Conclusion References Index
£46.80
Oxford University Press Shame of Poverty C
Book SynopsisThe Shame of Poverty invites the reader to question their understanding of poverty by bringing into close relief the day-to-day experiences of low-income families living in societies as diverse as Norway and Uganda, Britain and India, China, South Korea, and Pakistan. The volume explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen''s contention that shame lies at the core of poverty. Drawing on original research and literature from many disciplines, it reveals that the pain of poverty extends beyond material hardship. Rather than being shameless, as is often claimed by the media, people in poverty almost invariably feel ashamed at being unable to fulfil their personal aspirations or to live up to societal expectations due to their lack of income and other resources. Such shame not only hurts, adding to the negative experience of poverty, but undermines confidence and individual agency, can lead to depression and even suicide, and may well contribute to the perpetuation of poverty. Moreover, people in pTrade ReviewThe Shame of Poverty presents innovative and imaginative research that explores the connection between poverty and shame -- a relationship that has been neglected by many poverty scholars. * Faradj Koliev, Political Studies Review *Table of Contents1. The Origins of Poverty ; 2. Poverty Research and Measurement ; 3. Constructions of Shame ; 4. Poverty, Shame, and Stigma ; 5. Cultural Conceptions of Poverty and Shame ; 6. Conceiving of Poverty Without Shame ; 7. Shame in the Everyday Experience of Poverty ; 8. Responses to Poverty-Related Shame ; 9. Shaming People in Poverty: Attitudes and Actions ; 10. Shaming People in Poverty: Media and Policy ; 11. Poverty, Shame, and Society ; References
£45.12
Oxford University Press Dancing with Broken Bones
Book SynopsisDancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to the dying poor. Dancing with Broken Bones serves as a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner city dying poor.Trade ReviewRead this book. It will remind you why you became a physician. * The Lancet *Moller has produced a profound literary work. * Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care *...stories of courage, faith, suffering, and neglect are interwoven in a remarkable book for anyone with an interest in end-of-life care. * Journal of Palliative Medicine *Moller takes us through doors that we otherwise would not cross. He introduces us to people who are authentically themselves, fully alive, despite dismal circumstances. We hear their anger as well as their humor, see their suffering as well as their joy. They teach us the importance of feeling connected to others and the critical value of forgiveness, gratitude, and love at the end of life. Suffering misfortune that few of us can imagine, the people whose stories Moller tells reveal the inherent dignity and the indomitable nature of the human spirit. * - Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well, and co-founder of Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project *For most of us, the lives and deaths of the urban homeless remain invisible and largely unfathomable. Dr. Moller and his colleagues have had the courage to enter this world, and to even take medical students with them! In Dancing with Broken Bones, we too are invited along to witness its tragedies and its humanity. In these remarkable real-life narratives, we can contemplate what a dignified death might look like in the face of extreme poverty and homelessness. In doing so, we are invited to consider what is important in our own privileged lives and deaths, and how we should be caring for those who are far less fortunate. * Timothy E. Quill, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine *Dr. Moller has shed light on the forgotten world of illness and dying in the urban poor. Through eloquence, grace, and wit, he makes us face what to many is too painful to contemplate - death that is painful, lonely, and unwanted. This book will serve as a landmark in the death and dying literature, forcing health professionals and society at large to work harder toward an equitable system of healthcare for the living and the dying. * David E. Weissman, MD, Palliative Care Center, Medical College of Wisconsin *This book moved me to tears, to anger, to repeated shocks of recognition, as well as to joy and to pride at being part of a human race whose members are capable of such remarkable love and care for one another. * Diane E. Meier, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine *The grace and dignity of humanity is pervasive and memorable in these stories of living with poverty and fatal illness; but I hope that we are also profoundly moved to relieve the tragic circumstances that poverty and inept healthcare arrangements inflicted upon the people whose stories David Moller tells. * Joanne Lynn, MD, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisiting Dancing with Broken Bones ; Chapter 1. Crossing the Tracks ; Chapter 2. Dying Poor: An Invisible World ; Chapter 3. Dying the Public Hospital System: Institutional Arrangements and Provider Perspectives ; Chapter 4. Courage Through Suffering: Snapshots of the Dying Poor ; Chapter 5. Triumph and Faith Through Harsh Reality and Personal Tragedy: Lucille Angel ; Chapter 6. Life on the Brink: Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler ; Chapter 7. A Conclusion: Conscious Listening, Mindful Presence-A Lesson Learned ; Epilogue. An Urban Thoreau
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Oxford University Press The Global Auction
Book SynopsisFor decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars.Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how to thrive in it. Drawing on cutting-edge research based on a major international study, the authors show that the competition for good, middle-class jobs is now a worldwide competition--an auction for cut-priced brainpower--fueled by an explosion of higher education across the world. They highlight a fundamental power shift in favor of corporate bosses and emerging economies such as China and India, a change that is driving the new global high-skill, low-wage workforce. Fighting for a dwindling supply of good jobs will compel the middle Trade Reviewa very important contribution to the debate on skills and inequality. * Marius R. Busemeyer, Socio-Economic Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Promise ; 3. The Education Explosion ; 4. The Quality Revolution ; 5. Intellectual Arbitrage ; 6. Digital Taylorism ; 7. War for Talent ; 8. High Skills, Low Wages ; 9. The Rat Race ; 10. A New Opportunity ; Notes ; References ; Index
£24.22
Oxford University Press The Undeserving Poor Americas Enduring Confrontation With Poverty Fully Updated And Revised Americas Enduring Confrontation with Poverty Updated Revised
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America''s enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz''s new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008.Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America''s mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty. The Second Edition includes important new material. It now sheds light on the revival of the idea of culture in poverty research; the rehabilitation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; the resurgent role of biology in discussions of the causes of poverty, such as in The Bell Curve; and the human rights movement''s intensified focus on alleviating world poverty. It emphasizes the successes of the War on Poverty and Great Society, especially at the grassroots level. It is also the first book to chart the rise and fall of the underclass as a concept driving public policy.A major revision of a landmark study, The Undeserving Poor helps readers to see poverty-and our efforts to combat it--in a new light.Trade ReviewA convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States . * William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter One ; The Undeserving Poor: Morals, Culture and Biology ; Chapter Two ; Poverty and the Politics of Liberation ; Chapter Three ; Intellectual Foundations of the War on Poverty and Great Society ; Chapter Four ; Interpretations of Poverty in the Conservative Ascendance ; Chapter Five ; The Rise and Fall of the <"Underclass>" ; Epilogue ; What Kind of a Problem is Poverty? ; Acknowledgments ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to
Book SynopsisStudies the working poor in the United States, focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, this title tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying jobs.Trade Review"The originality of Both Hands Tied lies not just in its rich case study interview materials - in poor women's voices and the trajectories of their work and home lives - but in its careful tying of those materials to shifting national, state, and local economic policies." - Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University"
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press The End of the Line Lost Jobs New Lives in
Book SynopsisThis volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that town. Through interviews with displaced autoworkers and other members of the community it dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from the plant shutdown.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Debt Dispossession Farm Loss in Americas
Book SynopsisThe farm crisis of the 1980s was the greatest economic disaster to hit rural America since the Depression. The crisis gave rise to a social trauma that affects farmers in the 21st century. This is a chronicle of the experience.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Debt and Dispossession
Book SynopsisThe farm crisis of the 1980s was the greatest economic disaster to hit rural America since the Depression. The crisis gave rise to a social trauma that affects farmers in the 21st century. This is a chronicle of the experience.Trade Review"Dudley presents a subtle, insightful, and nuanced treatment of the rural 'community' itself, emphasizing its divisions and contradictions.... [A] very good and enlightening book. With Debt and Dispossession, Kathryn Dudley joins the ranks of such anthropologists as Jane Adams, Deborah Fink, and Sonya Salomon." - David Danbom, Rural History; "Dudley writes with rare skill and passion. This is a mid-stream account of America coming of age. Midwesterners are protagonists who may yet wrest a more satisfactory resolution, thanks to this superb contribution." - Deborah Fink, Annals of Iowa
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Managing to Make it Urban Families Adolscent
Book SynopsisA study of parenting and child out-comes in disadvantaged communities. Based on more than 500 interviews and case studies, the book reveals how parents have managed different levels of resources and dangers and contributed to the success of their children. Intended for sociologists, educators and policy makers.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Managing to Make It Urban Families Adolescent
Book SynopsisBased on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighbourhoods and how this management, rather than community involvement, contributed to the success of their children.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Overseers of the Poor Surveillance Resistance
Book SynopsisConfronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best - the watched. The book focuses on the conversations of low-income mothers from Appalachian Ohio as they talk about the welfare bureaucracy and its remarkably advanced surveillance system.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Why Americans Hate Welfare
Book SynopsisDrawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and news-magazine stories on poverty, this book demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Citizens and Paupers
Book SynopsisThere was a time when America's poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights - a predicament that forced them to forfeit their citizenship in exchange for economic relief. Over time, however, our welfare system improved dramatically. This work demonstrates that its legacy of disenfranchisement persisted.Trade Review"This outstanding book incisively recasts the history of the American welfare state as a series of struggles over the terms of citizenship. Through a succession of carefully researched and artfully drawn historical case studies, Goldberg demonstrates that conflict over the citizenship status of welfare beneficiaries played a major role in the fundamental battles about race, class, and gender that shaped the nation." - Robert C. Lieberman, author of Shaping Race Policy"
£25.65
University of Chicago Press Targeting Investments in Children Fighting
Book SynopsisA substantial number of American children experience poverty, and there are numerous programs designed to alleviate or even eliminate poverty. This book tackles the problem of evaluating these programs by examining them using a common metric: their impact on earnings in adulthood.
£99.00
The University of Chicago Press Bargaining for Brooklyn
Book SynopsisWhen middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations to bring resources back to the city. This book examines such organizations that drive urban life.Trade Review"This is a valuable work that will influence the way sociologists understand the cycle of development of poor, urban neighborhoods. Nicole Marwell makes a unique contribution with an analytic strategy that emphasizes the important role played by community-based organizations, actors that have been generally ignored in urban sociology." - Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk"
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The University of Chicago Press Bargaining for Brooklyn
Book SynopsisWhen middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations to bring resources back to the city. This book examines such organizations that drive urban life.Trade Review"This is a valuable work that will influence the way sociologists understand the cycle of development of poor, urban neighborhoods. Nicole Marwell makes a unique contribution with an analytic strategy that emphasizes the important role played by community-based organizations, actors that have been generally ignored in urban sociology." - Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Down Out and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday
Book SynopsisA close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Economics of Poverty Traps NBER National
Book SynopsisWhat circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Yet a major challenge analysts and policymakers face in understanding poverty traps is the sheer number of mechanismsnot just financial, but also environmental, physical, and psychologicalthat may contribute to the persistence of poverty all over the world. The research in this volume explores the hypothesis that poverty is self-reinforcing because the equilibrium behaviors of the poor perpetuate low standards of living. Contributions explore the dynamic, complex processes by which households accumulate assets and increase their productivity and earnings potential, as well as the conditions under which some individuals, groups, and economies struggle to escape poverty. Investigating the full range of phenomena that combine to generate pove
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The University of Chicago Press What Government Can Do
Book SynopsisCan governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great deal. It analyzes government programmes that affect Americans' food, housing, health care, education, jobs and wages, incomes and taxes.Trade Review"[A] deft and detailed defense of government activism to alleviate poverty and extreme inequality in the US.... [T]he detail with which [the authors] present their views and the richness of the overall vision make this a compelling treatise.... A sterling contribution to the ongoing discussion of what this country might or should become." - Kirkus Reviews "Since the mid-1970s, many Americans have contended that government cannot solve the social and economic problems we face. Page and Simmons are more optimistic. In this well-written book, they argue that many government programs, here and abroad, have reduced poverty and inequality.... This timely, thoughtful book presents a strong case for greater government action." - Library Journal
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse
Book SynopsisSocial workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, this study examines how these stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity, economic crisis, and war.Trade Review"Peel has written the first work of twenty-first-century history, and it stands as a model of how historians think and write multivocal accounts of the past. Convincing, provocative, and a pleasure to read." (Daniel Walkowitz, New York University)"
£55.00
The University of Chicago Press Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and Their
Book SynopsisOne out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and infantilization of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Disciplining the Poor
Book SynopsisLays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.Trade Review"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in
Book SynopsisScholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. Offering an analysis of how faith both motivates and at times constrains poor mothers' actions, this book reveals the ways it serves as a lens through which many view and interpret their worlds.Trade Review"Living Faith offers a thoughtful parsing of religious 'coping' as a multidimensional and multidirectional phenomenon. It usefully conceptualizes religious practices that are salient to the book's subjects as well as to broader religious publics. This highly original treatment of the role of religion in the lives of low-income women will be read widely, and for a very long time, by students of inequality, religion, gender, urban institutions, welfare policy, and more." (Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago)"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Death Gap
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The University of Chicago Press Welfare for Markets
Book SynopsisA sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of povertynow known as basic incomeis hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today's most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In this eye-opening work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with technopopulist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash. An incisive, comprehensive history, Welfare for Markets tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global, revealing the most significant shift in political culture since the end of the Cold War.Trade Review"The strengths of Jäger and Zamora’s historical approach are indisputable. They amply demonstrate what others have only hinted at—the depths of the political-economic and cultural shifts that led to the ascendence of market fundamentalism in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Their history is both broad and deep. Certainly it will become the authoritative account of the origins of UBI." * Jacobin *"Though meticulously researched, Welfare for Markets is a slim volume of succinct and lucid argumentation." * Boston Review *"Welfare for Markets [dismantles] the mythological history of UBI, which presents it as a timeless ideal of social justice backed by enlightened thinkers through the ages: Thomas More, Thomas Paine, Orestes Brownson, Charles Fourier and GDH Cole, among others. According to Jäger and Zamora Vargas, the supposed progenitors of basic income were anything but." * New Statesman *"[There] are vital insights that can be gleaned from Welfare for Markets, which deftly surveys many of the philosophical and political quandaries that basic income poses." * American Affairs *"Welfare for Markets [describes] how shocks to twentieth-century capitalism turned basic income into an ideal tool for deconstructing and rethinking social policy." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Welfare for Markets is a well-chosen title for an illuminating analysis of the intellectual history of basic income." * Counterfire *"[Jäger and Zamora Vargas] have teamed up again with this carefully researched historical reference that examines public welfare proposals from diverse ideological perspectives. They show that capitalist free markets do not benefit all individuals...This eye-opening work should be considered as a first purchase." * Library Journal *"Welfare for Markets is a stimulating and comprehensive book that fulfils the promise of offering 'a global history of basic income'...Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas explore, in time and space, the different proposals for guaranteed income in order to unfold the worldviews that underpin them." * Œconomia *"At once a fascinating intellectual history of the idea of Universal Basic Income, and a trenchant but well-reasoned and nuanced critique of it: this book must be read by anyone who is interested in or affected by one of the central policy tropes of our times." -- Jayati Ghosh | University of Massachusetts Amherst"No book in recent memory offers a comparable analysis of the multiple, sometimes outright contradictory uses of social policy in modern capitalism: the incredible variety of purposes, left and right, progressive and reactionary, to which social reformism can be put. This is history of ideas in its best, embedded in a social history that does not shy away from taking on the vexing relationship between ideas and interests — full of surprising turns, and great fun to read." -- Wolfgang Streeck | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies"From Gracchi to Trump, leftists to rightists, monarchists to republicans, legalists to revolutionaries, one idea has been supported by these diverse thinkers, politicians and philosophers in some form or at some time. It is the idea of guaranteeing minimal income to all citizens. It was utopian in poor societies, it is feasible in today's rich societies, and it already exists in some variation. But can it be pushed further, to include all and be delivered regardless of circumstances? Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora take us into an intellectual journey on which we shall meet almost every thinker we know, but they will be, most of the time, traveling with rather unexpected intellectual companions. Enjoy the ride!" -- Branko Milanovic | City University of New York"While pundits focus on enemies such as central planning, trade unions, and public ownership, they evade conversations on the limits and contradictions of capitalism but Welfare for Markets does not hold back. This brilliant book on the intellectual history of basic income is a necessary step and a must-read!" -- Carolina Alves | Girton College, University of Cambridge"On the surface, this book is an intellectual history of the concept of universal basic incomes. And the book is indeed a brilliant account of the genealogy of just this idea. But far beyond that, Welfare for Markets is an analysis of the relation between social welfare, the real production and provisioning of goods, and money. Welfare for Markets is a beautifully written book that allows us to step outside our troubled times to see visions for the future with new eyes." -- Isabella Weber | author of "How China Escaped Shock Therapy" | University of Massachusetts Amherst"Welfare for Markets is a brilliant historical account of universal basic income as the Trojan Horse for politics seeking to dismantle the welfare state and to replace the collective provision of public goods with grants for markets." -- Daniela Gabor | University of the West of England, BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction: Welfare without the Welfare State Chapter 1 An Anti-Mythology Chapter 2 Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax and the Monetization of Poverty Chapter 3 Cash Triumphs: America after the New Deal Order Chapter 4 The Politics of Postwork in Postwar Europe Chapter 5 Rethinking Global Development at the End of History Epilogue: Basic Income in the Technopopulist Age Acknowledgments Notes Archives Consulted Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press LateLife Homelessness
Book SynopsisLate-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Drawing from a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of older age and homelessness.Trade Review"Amanda Grenier critically and intelligently unpacks how declining social commitments and responses has led to disadvantage that culminates in unequal aging. This book is a clarion call to pay attention to an issue many refuse to acknowledge: the growing group of aging homeless Canadians. The scholarship and methodology used are exceptional. In fact, it is one of the best ethnographies I have read in a long time." Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria
£91.80
John Wiley & Sons LateLife Homelessness Experiences of
Book SynopsisLate-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Drawing from a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of older age and homelessness.Trade Review"Amanda Grenier critically and intelligently unpacks how declining social commitments and responses has led to disadvantage that culminates in unequal aging. This book is a clarion call to pay attention to an issue many refuse to acknowledge: the growing group of aging homeless Canadians. The scholarship and methodology used are exceptional. In fact, it is one of the best ethnographies I have read in a long time." Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria
£27.90
Columbia University Press People Plans and Policies Essays on Poverty
Book SynopsisThe primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist. Gans argues that the individual must work to alter society. He believes that not only must parents have jobs to improve their children's school performance, but that the country needs a modernized New Deal, a more labor-intensive economy, and a thirty-two hour work week to achieve full employment. Other controversial ideas presented in this book include Gans's opposition to the whole notion of an underclass, which he feels is the latest way for the nonpoor to unjustly label the poor as undeserving. He also believes that poverty continues to plague society because it is often useful to the nonpoor. He is critical of architecture that aims above all to be aesthetic or to make philosophical statements, is doubtfu
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Columbia University Press The Aid Trap
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone who wants to end poverty should take seriously the powerful and provocative arguments of The Aid Trap. Even if R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan don't convince you to embrace their new Marshall Plan, you will come away with a deeper appreciation for the limits of charity, the dangers of top-down planning, and the importance of creating a vibrant and open business sector. -- J. Gregory Dees, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan make a persuasive case that international aid flows have been grossly misdirected. In trying to do good, those in the developed world may actually have ended up doing substantial harm to the developing world. Hubbard and Duggan instead argue that aid flows should be redirected towards encouraging business and entrepreneurship. This is a timely and readable book about how to solve one of the most challenging problems of our time. -- Raghuram G. Rajan, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business The authors' willingness to confront conventional wisdom and examine and energetically attack the problem are refreshing and necessary. Publishers Weekly The Aid Trap is not about the failure of conventional aid but provides the outline of a solution that can work if taken seriously. It is that rare prescriptive book, and the world must pay attention. -- Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan's considered analysis of The Aid Trap adds a new and important dimension to the on-going development debate. This book, grounded in logic and supported by evidence, presents reasonable and sustainable steps that will move Africa forward. -- Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid: Why Aid In Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa A few years ago, we in Mauritius set out to make it easier for our own people and foreign companies to do business in our country. The result has been far more prosperity for our people. Other countries want to learn from our experience. I am pleased to see that there is now a book that can help. The Aid Trap makes a strong case and offers concrete steps for countries not to rely exclusively on the aid world and join the business world instead. I hope this book has a wide impact on the minds, hearts, and actions of national leaders, multinational and local businesses, aid agencies, and concerned citizens around the world. -- Honorable Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius Offers a different and logical, if emotionally counter-intuitive, approach to foreign aid. -- Sarah Lynch Forbes The authors point to the burgeoning economies of China and India as evidence that thriving businesses are the key to ending poverty. Chronicle of Philanthropy The Aid Trap articulates a constructive set of ideas about how to reform foreign aid. Economist The Aid Trap does a good job of both highlighting problems with the current aid structure and prescribing solutions. -- Reuben Abraham Alliance Magazine The Aid Trap the well-entrenched myth that development aid willerase global poverty. d-sector.org [The Aid Trap] offers a refreshing perspective on the current effort to end world poverty. -- Bennett Grill African Affairs The Aid Trap is a concise, beautifully written, stimulating, profound, and up-to-date reminder to all of us who are deeply concerned as to just why our traditional aid programs continue to fail us. -- Joseph Keckeissen Journal of Markets & Morality
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Columbia University Press New Strategies for Social Innovation
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable developmentTrade ReviewA timely and original conceptualization, this groundbreaking book analyzes the most recent trends in market-oriented approaches to social development. Through a rigorous assessment of corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, private sustainable development, and fair trade, Steven G. Anderson delivers a sound understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. A stimulating analysis full of invaluable insights, this work is a must-read for social change agents. -- Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley This is a terrific book that brings social entrepreneurship into perspective as one of many ways to achieve social impact and innovation. Anderson has done a masterful job in pulling together the fragmented literature on social innovation. He avoids the standard cheerleading that characterizes so many market-based approaches to solving global poverty and other seemingly intractable problems. Not only does he offer a set of clear-headed recommendations for harvesting thoughtful interventions but he is respectful toward all sides of the ongoing debate about what does and does not merit consideration as social innovation. -- Paul C. Light, New York University There is nothing quite like this book. It should make an important contribution to the academic literature on markets and social change and to our broader thinking about social policy and the comparative advantages of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and hybrids. -- Diane Kaplan Vinokur, University of Michigan A useful guide for scholars who are interested in the implications of public-private partnerships and various market-based strategies for nonprofits or social service organizations. -- Wonhyung Lee Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction to Market-Oriented Social Development Approaches 2. Developing Social Change Models 3. Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Social Entrepreneurship 5. Private Sustainable Development 6. Fair Trade 7. Market-Based Social Change Models: Reflections on Strengths, Limitations, and Directions for Social Change Advocates Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Proposing Prosperity
Book SynopsisThrough interviews with couples and observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges assumptions about marriage and critically examines the effects of such classes. She ventures inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how they reflect broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and inequality.Trade ReviewA useful, policy-relevant, and balanced treatment of how government-funded marriage and relationship education really works on the ground. -- Shawn Fremstad, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress The growing income gap in America has brought with it a marriage gap. Children are born at every class level but increasingly the rich marry and the poor don't. In 2002 President Bush set up the Healthy Marriage Initiative to teach poor unmarried parents to show empathy, listen actively, avoid violence, and marry. Participants loved and learned from the program, but discovered in its underlying ideology a focus on choice (to be or not to be nice to your partner) and silence about options (to get useful training and well paid work). In this beautifully researched, wise, important book, Randles tackles one of America's most important dilemmas and points to urgently needed solutions. -- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift and Strangers in Their Own Land This monograph is a must read for a sophisticated analysis of America's attempt to promote marriage as a poverty reduction strategy. With in-depth ethnographic research and smart theoretical arguments, Randles shows that the classes themselves were often operationalized differently than policymakers had intended. But in the end, even improved relationships have to contend with the lack of jobs and opportunities, which are the root cause of poverty. -- Barbara J. Risman, professor of sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Jennifer Randles's Proposing Prosperity is crucial reading for scholars of family and social policy. She combines essential policy background with ethnography of marriage promotion classes that just might help "true believers" recognize what is sorely missing from these seemingly kind-hearted projects. Bonus: Her clear and vivid text means my college students in family and social policy classes will read it this year. -- Virginia Rutter, co-editor, Families as They Really Are An eye-opening account of what federal marriage education programs look like on the ground and why they have been so ineffective in their goal of strengthening marriage. A well-researched and highly useful book. -- Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University Randles's astute interviews and observations reveal why, despite good intentions on all sides, classes designed to 'improve' the relationship skills of low-income couples fail to address their real-life barriers to intimacy and stability. An incisive, compassionate, and engrossing work. -- Stephanie Coontz, author, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage In this important and valuable book, Jennifer Randles immerses herself in state-run relationship classes, and shows they teach more about the politics and ideology of marriage promotion than about solving the pressing problems poor families face. She exposes the irony that, although relationship skills training may be useful, it won't address the problems of family inequality. -- Philip Cohen, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Learning and Legislating Love 2. Rationalizing Romance: Reconciling the Modern Marriage Dilemma through Skilled Love 3. Teaching Upward Mobility: Skilled Love and the Marriage Gap 4. Intimate Inequalities and Curtailed Commitments: The Marriage Gap in a Middle-Class Marriage Culture 5. The Missing "M Word": Promoting Committed Co-Parenting 6. Men, Money, and Marriageability: Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Through Marital Masculinity 7. "It's Not Just Us": Relationship Skills and Poverty's Perpetual Problems 8. Conclusion: Family Inequality and the Limits of Skills Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Rural Poverty in the United States
Book SynopsisIn a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.Trade ReviewThis book covers the historical development of rural poverty research and policy, brings together the core theoretical literature, and addresses significant substantive issues including food insecurity, race, migration, and housing. The breadth is remarkable. No other volume exists today that draws the literature together so comprehensively and engagingly. -- Linda Lobao, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Geography and Demography of Rural America1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?, by Kenneth M. Johnson2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now, by Bruce Weber and Kathleen MillerPart II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship, by Leif Jensen and Danielle Ely4. How to Explain Poverty?, by Ann R. Tickamyer and Emily J. WornellPart III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty, by Kristin SmithCase Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997), by Lisa R. Pruitt6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America, by Mark H. HarveyCase Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South, by Rosalind P. Harris7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America, by Shannon M. Monnat and Raeven Faye ChandlerCase Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents, by J. Celeste LayPart IV. Community and Societal Institutions8. Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital: A Tale of Two Valleys, by Jennifer ShermanCase Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington, by Jennifer Sherman9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts, by Brian Thiede and Tim SlackCase Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization, by Jill Ann Harrison10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity, by Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Barry SteffenCase Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West, by Sarah Whitley11. The Environment and Health, by Danielle Christine Rhubart and Elyzabeth W. EngleCase Study: The Environment and Health, by Michael Hendryx12. Education and Information, by Catharine Biddle and Ian MetteCase Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region, by Kai A. Schafft13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality, by John M. Eason, L. Ash Smith, Jason Greenberg, Richard D. Abel, and Corey SparksCase Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland, by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Amanda Hall-SanchezPart V. Programs, Policy, and Politics14. The Safety Net in Rural America, by Jennifer Warlick15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth, by Gary Paul Green16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples, by Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer WarlickContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Life Underground
Book SynopsisBeneath the surface of Manhattan’s Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents’ world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight.Trade ReviewIn Life Underground, Terry Williams meets Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the netherworld of New York City, unearthing the everyday lives of the city’s misbegotten bottom dwellers, immortalizing them for posterity. Richly observed and well-written, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares to truly understand the lives of those at the end of the line. -- Elijah Anderson, author of Black in White SpaceLife Underground provides unique documentation of the lives of homeless people living in underground tunnels and other spaces beneath the streets of New York City. No other work studies in so much detail the lives of people who might be considered the worst off of the city's worst off. -- Thomas J. Main, author of Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de BlasioTerry Williams has once again written a beautiful ethnographic piece, offering us a profound sociological work on 'shelterless life' below and at the margins of one of the richest but also socially polarized cities in the world: New York. Based on interviews, field notes, maps, journals, dream records, and a photographic register, Williams makes visible the living conditions of a population that is all too often invisibilized: homeless people. Their voices and life experiences are at the center of this research work together with the neoliberal transformations of said city. A fascinating and illuminating book that everyone should read, especially those who want to understand, challenge, and put an end to the housing crisis - in New York and globally. -- Ana Cárdenas Tomažič, Institute for Social Research (IfS), Goethe University FrankfurtTable of ContentsPrologueAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Descent2. Genesis3. Underground Ecology4. Men Underground: Bernard, Kal, and Jason5. Working Life6. Food: Restaurants and Soup Kitchens7. Women Underground: Tin Can Tina8. Beatrice and Bobo9. The Tagalong10. The Rabbit Hole 11. Reflections on Life Under the StreetEndnoteEpilogue: Mediating the Underground: Bernard’s ExitAppendix A: Income and Housing in New York City, 2002–2014Appendix B: Behavior Mapping and CartographyAppendix C: Interview Questions for Bernard, Princeton University, 2012Appendix D: Bernard’s Dream and PostcardAppendix E: Legacies of Harm: Policy and PolicingAppendix F: Where Are They Now?NotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Conservatorship
Book SynopsisThis book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.Trade ReviewA heartbreakingly insightful ethnographic deep dive into the failure of mental health care in the United States that everyone refuses to pay for—and for which no public authority takes responsibility. Barnard strategically takes us through each dysfunctional interstice of California’s iconically mismanaged mental health system that manages to maximize costs, minimizes benefits, and tortures everyone involved—especially people with psychosis spectrum disorders whose lives are cut short by the public/private bureaucratic quagmire that has been waging war on itself for the past half century. -- Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and co-author of Righteous DopefiendVivid case studies and probing interviews humanize this journey through the fraught terrain of involuntary care. Barnard pulls few punches in describing the more offensive stretches of the roadmap but avoids veering into unalloyed condemnation or praise. His thoughtful exploration yields reasons for hope that our better angels might prevail. -- Roderick Shaner, MD, former medical director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental HealthThe subject and title of Conservatorship is perhaps the most important yet least studied power of domestic governance. As Alex Barnard's meticulous study of California’s system for protecting those most disabled by mental illness shows, this power is left to a largely unaccountable and invisible system of local and market actors. At a time of much interest in new legal solutions to our severe crisis of unhoused, untreated, and mentally ill citizens, Barnard’s findings suggest the priority of addressing our even deeper crisis of authority. -- Jonathan Simon, author of Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of FearIn California, the state has abdicated its authority over the conservatorship process by delegating state functions to a fragmented field of actors. Cutting through overly simplistic accounts of conservatorship, Barnard uses rich data and sharp theory to delve into the pitfalls of this abdication of authority. -- Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban SufferingConservatorship delivers the kind of critical analysis that...would require California politicians, more comfortable with increasing budgets than investigating outcomes, to expose themselves to more blame. * City Journal *I recommend this very comprehensive book to anyone who is interested and ultimately frustrated by how our state has failed so many it purports a desire to help. * Southern California Psychiatrist *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Other Magna CartaPart I. The Conservatorship Continuum1. Outpatient2. Crisis3. Emergency Room4. Inpatient5. Public Guardian6. CourtPart II. Care and Coercion Under Conservatorship7. Locked In8. Stepped Down9. Neglect and Abuse10. Stabilization and RecoveryPart III. Reform11. Paving a New Pathway12. Asylum for the Dying13. Sharing Authority, Restoring AutonomyConclusion: Beyond MiraclesMethodological AppendixChronology of “Abdicated Authority”Glossary of Terms, Procedures, and FacilitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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