New Books in Public Policy
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Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill ...
"Welfare for the Rich" is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run...
49 min
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Michele Wakin, "Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Communi...
Wakin offers an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered homelessness....
48 min
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
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Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Re...
Loughnan questions assumptions about the rise and prominence of criminal responsibility from the late colonial period until recent times...
58 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Simon Bowmaker, "When the President Calls: Conv...
What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president?
21 min
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Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
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Govind Gopakumar, "Installing Automobility: Eme...
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...
53 min
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Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We ...
What is the price of a life?
43 min
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Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
31 min
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Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s C...
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...
54 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
57 min
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Lloyd B. Minor, "Discovering Precision Health" ...
Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...
55 min
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K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
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Kristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space...
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice....
45 min
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Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Me...
Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..
60 min
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Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group...
Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...
50 min
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to Peop...
Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...
52 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researc...
Randomized control trials, called RCT’s, have a logic so simple that anyone can understand how they work and even run them themselves...
38 min
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Sara Hughes, "Repowering Cities: Governing Clim...
Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...
50 min
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Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest ...
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
56 min
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Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min
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Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min